Larry Thompson

Retired Retail Executive having worked for Brooks Brothers, Lands' End, Eastern Mountain Sports, Gander Mountain, Umbro Soccer, Reebok, Smith & Hawken, Williams Sonoma, Restoration Hardware, and The Home Depot.

Product Manager, Designer, and frustrated architect.

Interested in Shaker Design and Cabinetmaking, historic preservation, music of all kinds, graphic design. and architecture.

Love backpacking, camping, hiking, sea-kayaking, motorcycle adventure touring. I hope to take an adventure motorcycle trek across the Sahara to Cape Town, and across Australia. Long to see Patagonia some day and The Cape of Good Hope.

Avid ham radio and short wave enthusiast. Love technology; enthralled by my iPad!

Well-educated, multiple advanced degrees, Fulbright scholar. Multi-lingual, fluent in French. Lived and taught in French-speaking Africa. Have worked, lived and traveled all over the world.