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Steve Shuman is a retired licensed architect living on Cape Cod. He received his professional degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA where he earned a Bachelor of Architecture. He did his internship in the Washington, DC area, and upon earning his license, he set off on his own and founded Akro Associates Architects. After ten years of practice in DC, he moved the firm to Cape Cod to be near the ocean and enjoy his passion for sailing.
He has designed numerous building types throughout his career, including senior centers, commercial buildings, multi-family dwellings, and custom single-family residences. Together with his wife Kathleen, he designed and built their home on Long Pond in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod.
He spent many years cruising the waters in and around Cape Cod and the islands, and sailed his thirty-eight-foot sloop on numerous trips to the Elizabeth Islands; Cape Cod Bay; Buzzards Bay; Narragansett Sound; Long Island, NY, and Block Island, RI. Having experienced all these places from land and sea, he became eager to see them from the air, and so he learned to fly and earned a private pilot license.
He had always had a passion for writing but never seemed to have the time for it until retirement. This book, AT THE PLACE BETWEEN, is the result of that aspiration.