The eldest of three sons born into a farming family east of Brawley, California, Harry has always been interested in flying, photography, and desert archaeology. These interests led him to take classes from noted archaeologist and historian Jay von Werlhof at the Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California. During these classes he met his future wife, Margaret, and made a lifelong friend in Jay. For the last thirty-five years Harry has flown over the Colorado and Mojave Deserts, documenting the little known geoglyphs of the American Southwest.