Gregg A. Mierka, was born in Detroit, Michigan, 1950.    Brother Mierka and his wife Mary first moved to Cranston, Rhode Island in 1978, and have conducted the tours and education programs at the General Nathanael Greene Homestead Museum, Spell Hall, Coventry, RI, since 1995.    Spell Hall is the historic home built by General Nathanael Greene in 1770.    Camp 7 Brother Mierka is a graduate of Central Michigan University, 1972 and 1974, Rhode Island School of Design, 1980, and Harvard University, 1984.    He holds the equivalent of two Bachelors Degress and three Masters Degrees.    For several years Brother Mierka also taught at primary and secondary schools and colleges in Michigan, New York and Rhode Island.    As a painter, Brother Mierka’s contemporary art works have been exhibited in America as well as Europe (including New American Art-selected by the NYC Galleries-Ridgefield, CT, and New Art-Monaco-Musee National selected by Princess Grace and Salvidor Dali), and are among several public and private collections.    He also worked for film director Ronald Maxwell on the movie "Gettysburg" as part of Assistant Director Skip Cosper’s Corps of Civil War Specialists under historian Brian Pohanka, co-producer of the "A&E Civil War Journal".    After completion of Gettysburg, he also worked on the French and Indian-Revolutionary War film "The Broken Chain".    In 2004, Brother Mierka provided information about Nathanael Greene to author-historian David McCullough as part of his research on the book "1776".    Other literary works by Brother Mierka are his series of biographies called "Rhode Island’s Own", combined with transcripts and personal narratives of Union soldiers and sailors who served in the Civil War compiled and written for the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.