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Thursday, November 15, 2012

100 Years old





Story # 71


      My Dad would have been 100 years old today.  Kenneth William Hunter was born November 15, 1912.  His parents, William and Clara Hunter, were Farmers and Dad was a Farmer.

     I was encouraged to leave the farm so that I would have an easier life.  It was decided for me when, in 1962, he had a heart attack and died.  At the time, treatment for heart problems was bed rest------ completely opposite of today’s angioplasty and stent treatments with full activity.


      The farm was gone and I was away from it but I eventually came back to growing things.  Through a great set of events, I ended up at Penn State studying horticulture and commercial flower production.


      In the greenhouse, I was farming in a building.


      Don’t let anybody tell you that we should go back to the ‘Good Old Days’.


      In the old days, there was no medical treatment for blocked arteries to the heart.