Author: Paul (Poof) Tardiff
Alternate names: none; PAUL "POOF" TARDIFF
Born: 6/9/1945
Bio: Born 6/9/1945 in Berlin New Hampshire. Went to school and graduated from New Hampshire Technical Institute.

Served with the 63rd Maintainence Battalion in Quang Tri, Vietnam from July 1968 to July 1969.

Taught school from 1971 to 1982 and was awarded the coach of the year in the state of New Hampshire for high school girls softball in 1975.

Returned to teaching  and working with at risk junior high students at Berlin Juniopr High School in 1999 and am now in my final years of this profession. 

Most of my recreation time is spent at camp in the Northern woods of New Hampshire where I fish, hunt, snowmobile, fourwheel and just enjoy the great outdoors. 

I also write a column every week for the Berlin Daily Sun called "Once Upon a Berlin Time and have published two books by the same name.