...of experience repairing boats, detailed research, tenacity and inspiration. Giordano is the son of a former Syracuse University art professor and has been mechanically inclined since a young age. He remembers distinctly building an 8-foot...

...Siter learned the business washing dishes in the restaurant his parents ran in Vermont. He graduated from Syracuse University in New York in 1978 with a major in mathematics. In 1979, he joined the U.S. Air Force and learned to fly...

...wanted that from Day One.'' Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, predicts HGTV's popularity will last. ''Walk into any hardware store,'' he says. ''Go back to the...