WHO? Gerald Miner

Jerry was born somewhere in Massachusetts back when gas prices were a lot cheaper. , Upon seeing him, and not wanting the same thing to happen again, believing there may be something wrong with the water, his father moved the family south to Connecticut.

When old enough Jerry joined the United States Airforce as a medic and volunteered for Vietnam, thinking there must be something wrong with him, they stationed him at Dover AFB in Dover Delaware as a Paramedic/ Surgical Assistant. There he assisted in the separating, sorting, re-assembling and identifying the bodies of the Canary Islands Plane crash.

After the Military, Jerry decided he had enough of short hair and let it and his beard grow, (looking a lot like Jerry Garcia). Wanting to continue in the medical field he found the the State of Connecticut did not have Paramedics at that time and did not recognize his military medical training. The best they offered at that time was EMT, so he took that training. Jerry was active in both the Mystic and Old Mystic Fire Departments and Stonington Rescue. He went on to become the Assistant chief of the Old Mystic Fire department and retired from that position this year.

He worked for the Town of Stonington WPC and as an Emergency dispatcher for the Town of Groton. After doing a few years stint with the Submarine Base Fire Department we went back to the WPC (now privately contracted)

Jerry's first bike was a 1974 Honda 360 twin. (before metric twins were V's) His next bike was a 1967 Harley Davidson Sportster 900ci Chopper, the bike was Black with flames, had a square tube frame and square tube springer. The backrest (sissy-bar) was tall with a chrome bayonet mounted between the bars.(This bike hated his wife and refused to start if she was around, if he did manage to get it running and she went for a ride on it....it broke). But once his furnace let go, the bike was sacrificed to the gods to pay for it's replacement. A number of years went by where neither finances nor time were available (spell: children) to purchase a new bike. Then his brother arrived from Florida with a Road Star Classic and once Jerry rode it the flame was re-lit. With the kids grown and money available Jerry set out to get a Road Star of his own. He came home with a 2009 Harley Lowrider, (Which everyone knows is not low at all). And the rest is, as they say history.



1974 Honda CB360T

Jerry's Chopper

2009 Dyna Lowrider

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