Although I have mostly retired from heavy foundry and machine work, I have kept the original name of my family's company mostly out of sentiment. I have spent much of my life as a tugboat captain, marine engineer, foundryman and machinist. I still own a small tugboat and enjoy machining and foundry work as a hobby. My home shop is full of old flatbelt driven machinery handed down for four generations from the original family works in Southeast Texas. In 1996 I wrote a book on home ironfounding and building small cupola furnaces, which I sell direct from this website. I attended Texas A&M University, where I was an ROTC officer cadet and played polo on the university club team, and later studied in London, before returning to S.E. Texas and taking over the family business. Leta has a degree from Lamar University in Beaumont TX in foreign languages and is a freelance journalist. She is also a musician performing on flute, recorder, voice, and percussion. Both of us own black powder guns and enjoy target shooting with them. We also enjoy living history and period reenacting, both with the Washington Civil War Association where we portray British observers with the Confederacy and with the Royal Engineers Living History Group of British Columbia where I currently portray Colonel Richard Moody, commandant of the RE in B.C. and the province's first Lt. Governor. Leta enjoys knitting and has made a life-long study of historical costume and needlework. We have one daughter, Wendy, who graduated with a degree in geophysics from Western Washington University in Bellingham, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. We have lived since 1985 on beautiful Lopez Island, in the San Juan Archipelago, just east of Victoria, B.C. and an hour's ferry ride from the US mainland.

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Stewart & Leta Currie-Marshall, 2008