fentress earliest memories are of playing in a sandbox in the shade of a large umbrella tree. "i was an easy kid to watch. my grandmother was always hovering by that sandbox and i just built incessantly." fentress found his calling in high school where he gravitated to drafting courses. "i just ate up anything related to building – the teacher didn't know what to do with me," remembers fentress, "i was through with the year's drafting projects in two months – it gave me a clue as to what i was meant to do."