About the Author

George Spence is a retired architectural precast concrete contractor, U.S. Army veteran, and longtime resident of Dalton, Georgia. He served as a military advisor in Vietnam's Central Highlands during the Battle of Plei Me in 1965 and later as an artillery battery commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. During a forty-eight-year career in construction, he helped build more than two thousand buildings across the Southeast, including Atlanta's iconic King and Queen towers and the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga. He is the author of The Spence House (BDP Publishers, 2025) and The Night of the Shooting Stars (BDP Publishers, 2026). He lives in the modernist concrete home that he and his wife, Rhenda, planned and built in Dalton.