Anthony Barker died April 3, 2022. I was able to visit him the week prior. He had been released from the hospital to the assisted living facility that he shared with his wife, Betty. He was on hospice with a prognostication of three more months. Although he was thinner and frailer than I had everContinue reading “Anthony Barker”
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Genetics and New England Pathology
I am a W.A.S.P (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant) eligible as a card-carrying member of both the Mayflower Society and the Sons of the American Revolution. My maternal grandmother’s sister invested the time and patience to complete the proofs required by the Mayflower Society.[1] That lineage, the Messinger–Taft branch, is documented cleanly from Plymouth Rock to me,Continue reading “Genetics and New England Pathology”
James Hornfischer
My [second] cousin Jim Hornfischer died this month. Far too early: he was just three years older than I am. We were not very close. His family shared the occasional Christmas at Windywalls and he was Dungeon Master in a few well-run campaigns I played in as a teenager. He had an accomplished career asContinue reading “James Hornfischer”
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