Charles Hutson was born in a small town in Southern Illinois and has lived most of his life in such towns...except for a couple of years hitch hiking out West and living in Idaho, Oregon and California. While he received a degree in Art, with a minor in Art Education from SIUC, he has spent most of his working life as a Nursing Home Administrator...which has absolutely nothing to do with this story...but a lot to do with the man he has become.