Bo  Smith's Website 

Last Updated: February 4th, 2015
 

email: [email protected]

"I'd rather burn out than rust out"
(source unknown)






Bo's Minerals for Sale

(updated February 20th, 2014)



  Bo's Mine Tours website
(updated February 3rd, 2015)

Ancient Native American Mica Mining in Western North Carolina
(updated September 5th, 2013)





Professional Page
(updated: February 4th, 2015)
Personal Page
(updated: November 5th, 2013)




My wonderful wife, Diana


My Five Daughters and Their Families




My eldest daughter Heather,
is a senior lecturer and statistical consultant at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. CA. Her husband, David is a senior biostatistition for Westat in Maryland but works from home. Their oldest son, Austin (on the right) is a freshman physics major at Cal Berkeley. Hadden (on the left) is a junior in high school and is an outstanding student and avid golpher. Hadden shot is first "hole in one" on February 3rd




My next eldest daughter, Laura is a television news producer who has her Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Texas. She currently teaches journalism at a small college in Austin. Her husband, Steve is a musician and private contractor. Their beautiful and talented daughter, Eiiza recently won her 2nd grade science fair (experimnental division)!






My middle daughter, Stacy is a director of online graduate level courseware development at North Carolina State Iniversity. Her husband, Jed is an architect.  The live in Raleigh with their two great children;  Oliver will be six in June  enjoys working with his gem mineral collection. Nora recently turned two and is the antithesis of "terrible two".




My fourth daughter, Jessica lives with Husband Tom and their daughter Leighton in Surf City, New Jersey.  Jessica earned her BA in Business Management at the University of North Florida while continuing her career as soloist at the Florida Ballet. Tom and Jessica have recently purchased a lanndscaping business on Long Beach Island , New Jersey. Tom manages the operations of the business while Jessica oversees the office side.  Their daughter Leighton will be two years old on February 11th.
This picture was taken in Costa Rica in January where Tom surfs and Jessica and Leighton enjoy the beach; Guess there's not much going on in the landscaping business on the jersey shore in January!




My fifth and beautiful daughter, Lindsay lives with her husband, Brett and their two children Curran and Liv In Ormand Beach, Florida.  Lindsay minds the children while Brett works as a registered nurse at a hospital in Daytona while he simultaniously works at home on an online BA in nursing program. Their son Curran is a big and active and will be three on March 2nd.  Their daughter, Liv is a cute and unassuming 1 1/2 year old. :-)



Our Jacksonville Home and our North Carolina Cabin
My wife, Diana and I along with our three Shia Tzu doggies and one orange tabby cat  live in Jacksonville, Florida from mid September through early June.
We enjoy visiting with our friends and family who live in the vicinity of Jacksonvillle.  I spend my time in the fall and winter enjoying watching the "Gators" play football, working with my rocks and minerals in a new "mineral lab" in our garage, reading, and volunteering for my alma mater ,Cornell, by coordinating alumni contacts with prospective new Cornell students in northeast Florida.  Diana partiularly enjoys the fellowship of her church friends, and accomplishing decorating projects in our new home and landscaping in our backyard with the help of her daughters, Ginny and Alice. We both look forward to doing some salt water surf fishing off of Mayport, Jacksonville, and Daytona Beach and also some pier fishing.

          Picture of our house comming soon
Picture of our our dogs and cat coming soon

   Surf fishing off the naval base in Mayport



We live at our cabin in Micaville, North Carolina (northeast of Asheville) from mid June to mid September.  We enjoy the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains and the people, their music, and and their culture there in western North Carolina.  I have a small mine tours business there in the summers (Bo's Mine Tours)
 
Cabin in October

View of Black Mountains from cabin back porch in October.  The 6000' Mt.Celo is on the left.

We love the local music and musicians.
These guys played at our cabin last year.

I enjoy taking groups on tours of local mines as part of my small business, Bo's Mine Tours




Any man may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile,

I think he can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction ....... I served in the U.S. Navy "

John F. Kennedy




Lt. Bo Smith
A4 pilot in 1967 off the coast of North Vietnam
VA-15 Valions from USS Intrepid CV-11

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Website by:  Robert S. "Bo" Smith