Gill, Warren: - Warren Gill lives on a farm across the road from his home farm near Petersburg. He is retired after a career as an educator, including time as a researcher and professor at Middle Tennessee State University and at the University of Tennessee. Gill's primary focus was on animal husbandry, which explains why substantial sections of this book provide many details about how the plants and animals were adapted and blended into the lives of the wonderful people who raised him and were his friends and mentors throughout his life. With his brother and sister and other family members, Gill still operates the family farm where he was raised.