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'The Beginning'

My name is Sean Paxton. Along with my brothers, Scott & Brooks, and our brother from another mother, Tom Larkin (our grandparent's son) we instigated this entire mess as four young and wild brothers reared in the blue-collar steel country of western Pennsylvania. We were inspired by age-old traditions instilled in us as kids, practically as soon as we were able to walk, by our grandparents from the greatest generation and our parents. They taught us about the important things in life you can count on one hand: Family, Friends, Country, Freedom and the Mother of all Mothers -- Mother Nature, herself.

Some of our earliest memories are of those times spent in the outdoors with family and friends hiking through the Pennsylvania Mountains hunting and exploring or fishing and swimming in the Atlantic Ocean out of Delaware, Virginia and Maryland. Although, time has surrendered some of the family and friends we had since then, their memories and those traditions still drive us to this day and live on in tribute through a lifestyle and spirit that has become our creed ... 'Adventure & Wild Life Forever'.

So lets take a quick ride in the 'way-back' machine because who we are and why we're doing the things we are today has everything to do with who and where we come from. One or two little changes in the script and well ... 'that's all folks'. It would've been over before it started. We're just glad it all worked out the way it did.

It was once upon a time when our grandfathers met our grandmothers and soon after were married. Not much later, when duty called, both men joined the United States Army to bravely defend our freedoms in the Second World War. They fought like true warriors in some of the most important, epic and bloody military campaigns in history. Somehow, against all the odds, they survived to return home. Proud and highly decorated with medals for their scars and valor, they started families, worked hard, played hard, and raised some great kids. A couple of them grew up, met each other, tied the knot, and fortunately for us, started a whole new generation. We'll be the first to admit they had their hands full with us. But after looking around these days, we feel real lucky growing up during those times. It was a different era -- a different world. We got into plenty of trouble and managed to make our share of mistakes. But our entire family was always there, seeing to it we made good in the end, and never got too full of ourselves along the way. It made all the difference.

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'Let's Take This Show On The Road'

We still call it home, but did eventually move on from the beautiful mountains of western Pennsylvania in the 1970's to spend most of our formative years in the entertainment business with our parents. Eventually, traveling around the world and performing with them became each of our first real jobs. Our family, including three cats, and an extended tribe consisting of a private tutor and full compliment of musicians and crew got real tight living, traveling and working together for the better part of two decades. Our occupation took us everywhere including the high seas on the world's largest cruise ships. All this exposure to exotic locations around The Americas and beyond was like going to the planet's biggest zoo for the four us. The best part, however, was these animals weren't in cages. So in between commitments with our professional occupation, we satisfied our personal PREoccupation with wildlife by seeking out whatever animals we could get our curious little eyes and hands on. After the deer, bear and squirrel in Pennsylvania, interacting with animals like alligators, sharks, iguanas, seals and big snakes was as if Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler reached out from inside the TV set and pulled us into the real Wild Kingdom. It was an awesome experience that had big impacts on the direction our lives were already taking.

Time marched on just like that until the last decade of the 20th Century. That's right about the time we morphed into big kids and wandered off to find ourselves, explore other career opportunities and conquer new territory ... the usual stuff guys do at that age. Of course, on the outside we were prepared to kick the world's ass, but it was sad and even a little scary leaving our parents, each other and that familiar life on the road behind. It was only time and distance that separated us over those ensuing years until fate stepped in with tempting opportunities for us to work together again. Soon after, there were collaborations on major rock tours and performances with fellow artists like: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Swamp Boogie Queen, The Doobie Brothers, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Ben Vereen, Jerry Lewis, and legendary producers like Phil Ramone. We even made cameo appearances on the FOX TV show, 'Melrose Place' and celebrated the turn of a new century with two of our grandparents. Yeah ... it was one hell of a time all right, and a period we jokingly refer to as our 'Forest Gump Years'.

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'Where We Go From Here'

Fast forward to the present, and strangely enough, the entire family lives in Florida, almost all us on the same street, and on the water with pretty much every animal that swims, flies runs or crawls living just outside our backdoors. Life is a sometimes-wacky adventure, and you don't always know where you'll end up. But it's the element of surprise that keeps us coming back for more. In this case we landed right, and we're even working together again as a family. Only this time, we're not living out of a suitcase -- not on a regular basis, anyway. Looking back on it all, even we have to admit it's been a wild life so far, but in more ways than one, it feels like we're just getting started.

As part of the natural evolution of documenting our lives, beginning with simple snapshots and personal stories back in the day, my family has captured a million memories. But more recently, the information age is making some pretty insane technology available to just about anybody with a few hard-earned bucks and enough patience to make it work. Eventually, we decided to test our own version of patience with initial ambitions to preserve our family's generational archives by transferring all of it to a digital format. Pretty ambitious, indeed. We have garages full of everything from pictures dating back to the 1800's, Polaroids, old film and VHS footage -- you name it. This ongoing project soon turned to the goal of producing a family history & tribute documentary. While tackling that, we turned the cameras on ourselves to capture what we quickly realized was the obvious next chapter in our family's history. Through the process, we're learning a lot about why we are who we are and maybe even why we choose certain paths in life. For me personally, a few things were beginning to make sense. For instance, no matter what else any of us did or where we lived or traveled, my close family always had a connection with adventure, wildlife and the outdoors; a trait passed down from our grandfathers and from their fathers to them. But during the last half of my life, I've been taking those same recreational passions to a higher level of commitment. Then, the 'why' hit me. By virtue of growing up in an era where huge changes on so many levels had taken place, I can remember a time when the subject of 'endangered species' was a sometimes topic of discussion. Some of my heroes growing up were dedicated adventurers and advocates like Jacques Cousteau and Marlin Perkins who pioneered efforts to raise awareness through entertainment. For the most part, however, the idea of environmental peril was a rare news item when I was growing up. Then again, we only had ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news, a local station and the papers. But these days, topics like: species extinction, vanishing habitats, clear-cutting, deforestation, human overpopulation, global warming, climate change and all the other cries of imminent environmental disaster are so prevalent on 100's of cable channels and the internet that it's probably tempting for some to just tune it all out. Confusion and apathy -- a tricky mix, indeed.

Maybe, for the past few decades, there has been some collective sleeping done at the wheel. But regardless of what side of the fence you're on, one thing is crystal clear. Things 'out there' are just not the same as they were not so long ago. In some cases, they're pretty damn unsettling. Having experienced some of these impacts firsthand, I'm now committed to doing my part as a lifetime adventurer and outdoorsman to reverse the dangerous trends we're facing. Trust me, it's not a political statement. Far from it. Because when we say that things are different 'out there' these days, it's just the facts, Mam. Fortunately, one thing remains the same. And that is the commitment to Adventure & Wild Life that maintains with those who act on a responsibility we've all inherited for the successful care, preservation and restoration of our planet's natural resources. Let's face it, the still great outdoors has been our playground for a lifetime and none of us are done playing -- not just yet. Recess is still in session and there are some things we want our kids to actually experience up-close and personal. Not just through the bars of a zoo cage (if they're lucky) or the fake glow of a flat screen TV.