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Fran Reidelberger

Fran Reidelberger has been chasing mountains to see what's on the other side since his childhood days in Nashville, Illinois.

 

He was a schoolboy basketball player and says his prime motivation was not the roar of the crowd, but the opportunity to travel, even if it was on a bus that broke down as often as not.

 

His major studies were history and journalism at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts and Central Michigan University.

 

The U.S. Navy gave him an opportunity to continue his travels - from coast to coast of the United States and throughout the Far East with stops in Hong Kong, Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines.

 

Fran was also stationed at Pearl Harbor for two years, and it was there that he began a 14 year career in daily newspaper work. He started as a club reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and ended as editor of the Decatur, Illinois Herald and Review. He won a number of awards for writing, editing, newspaper design and creative use of news photos.

 

Fran is married to the former Brooke Metcalf, daughter of the late James W. Metcalf, a highly regarded travel film producer and lecturer. Brooke was a magazine photographer and travel consultant. Together the Reidelbergers joined the travelogue profession in 1977. They love people and believe if the people of the world understood one another just a little better, there would be less chance for hostility and more chance for world peace. Their excellent color films are made with that objective in mind. They are informative, interesting, and exciting productions that not only entertain but also educate without pain.

 

Fran, who gives the live lecture presentations of the Reidelberger films, appears regularly on all of the major travel lecture platforms, including the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C., and Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 

When not traveling the world, the Reidelbergers make their home in Grayling, Michigan.

 

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