Steve Peek

  • Address: 60 Snelson Rd. Alexander, NC 28701
  • Phone: 828-645-5092
  • Email: stephenpeek@frontier.com
  • Favorite Meal:Any seafood 
  • Favorite Dessert: Really dark chocolate and a glass of good Cab
  • Favorite Ice Cream: can't have ice cream 
  • Favorite Books: "Undaunted Courage" Stephen Ambrose
    "Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Southern Appalachians" William C. Roody.  Numerous other fungal field guides and almost anything by Douglas Preston and/or Lincoln Child
  • Favorite Movies: Forrest Gump, All the Star Wars
  • Favorite Music: Blues, oldies, some bluegrass
  • Hobbies: Collecting and consuming wild foods, especially fungi. Brewing, wine and mead making.  Fishing.  Gardening.
  • Family: Married my second wife Dorothy (Pat) in 1989
    Step daughter Elizabeth born in 1972
    Elizabeth has two children Caelan and Olivia
    Daughter Jennifer born 1973 no kids
    One curmudgeonly tomcat called Opie
  • Before ACR: Oakley Elementary
  • After ACR: Navy, then Blue Ridge Community College where I learned the auto collision repair trade. Shop manager for a local dealer, then one of the largest independent shops in the state.
         Picked up an Insurance Adjuster's license and worked claims both as an independent and as a Senior Staff Adjuster.
         After being "aged out" I began to dabble in the stock market and residential real estate. My wife and I formed our own company. We bought, remodeled, sold and/or rented many properties carrying the mortgages on many of them.
         In 2004 my health began failing. I finished my last remodel project late that year and turned all my rentals into notes by making all the renters homeowners. I retired on disability in 2005.
         That same year we cleared about an acre of our land and planted about 700 blueberry plants. I always wanted to grow things.
Last updated 7/2/2014
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Bucket List 
  1. I'm actually very content but traveling would be fun
  2. Searun brown trout in Argentina
  3. Pan for gold (and fish) in Alaska
  4. Build a winter home in Costa Rica or Panama or Ecuador
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