About Charles A. Reeves,
Jr.
I started drawing maps after I retired at the
early age of 53. This was after working 31 years at the
DOE facilities in Oak Ridge, 20 years at Y-12 and 11 in
PC Support, which at the time covered all three plants
there. I knew very little about drawing maps when
I started, but I fairly quickly learned enough to catch
the eyes of the folks who ran The Map Store in
Knoxville. I drew maps for them and several others
for several years, some very large and complicated,
until the store closed. That of course was due to lack
of interest in paper maps, because by then just about
everyone had a smart phone with digital maps. At that
point I started drawing other things using the graphic
tools I had learned. Most notable of those were
detailed overhead views of all the stadiums at The
University of Tennessee, for their Athletic
Department. They now handle all of that kind of
thing in-house.