Rolland Love is the author of award wining short stories, novels and a best selling computer book. He’s co-author of Homegrown in the Ozarks: Mountain Meals and Memories, a cookbook of Ozark recipes and essays. He has appeared on television talk shows http://tinyurl.com/327bek and numerous publications, including the Kansas City Star have written stories about his Mark Twain writing style.
Among his acting forays, Rolland plays the simulation role of a standardized patient at the University of Kansas School of Medicine; he played a medical healer at the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs, Kansas; a monk, a villain and the role of John Calvin McCoy, founder of Westport, Missouri.
He was a member of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery during the Bicentennial in 2004 and played the role of Pvt. Silas Goodrich, expert fisherman on the expedition in 1804. He developed a monolog from his journal entries, which he presents to schools, libraries, bookstores, campfire girls, civic groups, and retirement centers.
Rolland is a board member and Director of Marketing and Fund Raising with Friends of Kaw Point Park, an environmental group. The Park has been voted Best Park (2007) in the Kansas City area. http://www.lewisandclarkwyco.org/kawpoint.html
Love co-founded a company that published an educational software series dealing with health education for young adults. He also directed the Respiratory Care department at Barnes Hospital, a twelve hundred bed teaching institution affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis.