A former science department chair at East Greenwich High (RI) Greg Coppa is a writer for the communication agency of Cote & D'Ambrosio and has been freelancing, as well, for three decades. Hundreds of his essays, articles and OPEDS have appeared in publications like the San Francisco Chronicle, Sail magazine, The Providence Journal and so on. Over the Christmas season the movie, "November Christmas," based on Greg's short story of the same name, was a popular choice on the Hallmark Channel. "A Partridge in a Persimmon Tree" is the recently released sequel and is available on Amazon.com in the collection entitled November Christmas and Other Short Stories.