Richard Bergeron is a writer of many genres. His website and blog are at richard-bergeron.weebly.com. He grew up all over the U.S.A., but primarily in Rock Island, Illinois. In 1960, he joined the Navy at age 19 and stayed in for ten years. After boot camp at Great Lakes, he trained to become a Fire Control Technician (FT), and then had five and a half years of sea duty, mostly on destroyers. He served on the USS Laffey (DD-724), the USS Meredith (DD-890), the USS Norton Sound (AVM-1), the USS Cony (DD-508). He had a few months of temporary duty on the USS Sierra (AD-18). His final assignment was as an electronics weapons control repair and maintenance instructor in Newport, Rhode Island. Bergeron moved to Minnesota in late 1969, where he taught and designed repair courses at Control Data Corporation (CDC). Then he designed classes and educational computer programs at the Red School House (a Native American school), and Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation (MECC, the "Oregon Trail" people). Finally he served two years in AmeriCorps and a year as VISTA Leader with the Minneapolis Public School system. Bergeron used his G.I. Bill to obtain a Bachelor of Elected Studies degree, summa cum laude, with an American History major and an American Indian Studies minor, which led to an involvement with the Native American people in Minnesota. He became a traditional dancer and was adopted by a Dakota Family. He and his wife worked with the Minneapolis Juneteenth Committee for eleven years. (Juneteenth is an African American event celebrating the end of enslavement in the US.) Now retired, Bergeron is finally able to do two things he has always wanted to do: teach American Indian Studies, which he does as part of the Minneapolis Schools' Community Education Program, and write books. Bergeron wrote extensively at every civilian job. He wrote a number of articles in various corporate publications. Some of his college papers were published in general systems and futures studies peer-reviewed journals. Every program he designed at MECC required a teacher manual and many required audio scripts to go along with videos. He has a (not self-) published book of poetry called Where Did the Sunrise Go? and a number of poems published in Guild Press anthologies. His "Three Acadian Generations" concerning his French Acadian ancestors, was initially published by Yvon Cyr on his Acadian Genealogy website. His novel, Needle on the Haystack, is his first published fiction. He married his wife Barbara in 1968. They have three sons.
