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Perhaps I should introduce myself. My name is Rob Lecrone
and, well, I've lived in Alaska since I was eight years old. My
family moved up here from Florida, my father arriving first. Dad
had to be at Elmendorf Air Force Base sooner than the entire family
could move, so he flew up and we followed later in our green
van. My mother drove us to Alaska -- me, my brother, my two
sisters, our new puppy, and for the first leg of the trip, from
Florida to Ohio, one of our cousins.
Anyway, I've lived in Alaska since I was eight years old. I
think I told you that. I was born
December 26, 1969 in Cambridge, Ohio, the son of Jim and Esther
Lecrone. Jim was in Vietnam when I was born, flying a reconnaissance
plane in the Vietnam War. I suppose I'm lucky I wasn't born the
day before Christmas because that would have meant spending both my
birth and first Christmas apart from my father. Instead, we were
together my first Christmas a year after I was born.. Dad may have
served in a war across the ocean, but at least he was able to come home.
So, I was born. And my father wasn't there. My mother was.
And I was thankful to be alive. I think. I don't know,
can't really remember. But I should have been thankful to be
alive, so I might as well assume that I was. I was thankful to
be alive, thankful to have parents. I lived because of them and because of
their parents before them and their parents before that, and because
of some quality of the universe that might be called God or Allah or
any number of names or concepts. I grew
and had birthdays and Christmases, always one more birthday than
Christmas.
I moved from Ohio to Germany to Florida to Alaska. I went to
Mt. Spurr Elementary school on Elmendorf AFB and then to Central
Junior High, to Bartlett High School, to the University of Alaska,
Anchorage. I received a degree in English with a creative writing
emphasis, a minor in philosophy. While at UAA, after working a
student job at the library, I got a staff job producing the schedules
and catalogs and working in curriculum. I worked
there for a few years and then moved to the advertising and
public relations department of the Anchorage Convention & Visitors
Bureau.
That's about when I started acting. I'd spent a
couple of years writing short stories and organizing local readings,
but by this point, I had stopped writing. I hadn't acted since a play in high
school, and when an opportunity arose, I suddenly was an actor.
When I left ACVB, it was to take a marketing job with a software
company that developed products for photogrammetry and digital
mapping.
I don't do that anymore.
Right now I'm
a 31 year old Anchorage actor who sells Saturns and bartends at
Bernie's. And who are you?
