Hello Pagosa! Mr Hemenger is the lucky guy who teaches the Americana Project, Music Appreciation, Wilderness Skills and Resource classes. His background includes 35 years of being a working musician and decades of teaching wilderness survival and tracking, (including 3 years as an instructor at Tom Brown Jr's Tracker School), He has been teaching in the public schools for 21 years with 14 years at PSHS, 2 years at Dulce High School, 2 years at Ignacio High School and 3 years with The Alternative High School in Archuleta county. His undergraduate degree is in Biology and Secondary Education. Mr Hemenger has a Masters Degree in Special Education and ESL as well.