J. Wilfred Cahill

J.Wilfred Cahill was born in 1949 in Winooski, Vermont. Over the course of his youth he lived in Hicksville, on Long Island in New York, Buffalo, Salt Lake City, St.Paul & Duluth, Kingsville, Maryland, and Wauconda, Hinsdale, & Prairie View, Illinois. He was the only student in his high school class to hold a full time night job as a line cook with the popular Minnesota restaurant chain called "Embers". After graduating high school in Bel Air Maryland he attended the College of St. Scholastic in Duluth, Minnesota where he became the first male student body president of that all girl Catholic college. During his tenure in Duluth he worked as a ladies shoe salesman in large downtown department store to fund his tuition. Cahill has been a Good Humor ice cream truck driver, a pipeline equipment supplier, offshore marine construction rigger; building oil and gas drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, a Wall St. banker; with Barclay's Bank in New York's financial district.

In 1971 he left Wall St. with a backpack and guitar to hitch hike the country for several years until wandering into Aspen, Co., where he met his bride of almost 40 years. He intended to spend a winter skiing and stayed for 35 years. While there he became a self taught furniture maker and real estate broker who owned and operated one of the largest property management companies in Aspen. He is an avid outdoors man, fly fisher, fly tier and the author of 3 books - "I Never Liked Those C-130's Anyway" with Malcolm Smith; the riotous tale of legendary Coast Guard Search & Rescue Aviator LCDR Malcolm R. Smith, " Jack's Drift"; the funny and poignant look into the timeless art of fly fishing and "Taxed Enough- A Property Tax Protest Guide".

He lives in South West Colorado above the banks of the historic Uncompahgre River with his family where he spend his time operating his real estate company in Aspen, woodworking, fly tying, gardening, chasing his toddling grandson and of course fishing with "Jack".