Oct 12, 2010
Both from Seattle, John William Barry inherited wealth and pedigree while Neil Countryman came from blue-collar Irish stock. At the age of 16 they met and began a friendship based on their love of the outdoors. John William was intellectual and talked incessantly on Gnosticism. His mother had mental health problems and his father was a busy executive who spent little time with his family. Neil longed to be a writer, taking notes about observations he made in life. His mother died with he was 12 and he lived with his father. Neil went to college after a summer of hiking through Europe. When a