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The Umbrella Man's Final Flights

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West by Southwest

The Umbrella Man's Final Flights

By: Bennett Lear Fairorth,Lear Fairorth Bennett Lear Fairorth

The author, 81, a retired English teacher, decides to leave his several volunteer tasks for the community to fly west from Abington, Pennsylvania, 12 miles north of Philadelphia, to visit a granddaughter in Las Vegas, Nevada; a sister in Portland, Oregon; an older son in San Francisco, California; and a younger son in Austin, Texas, and the people these 4 live with. He is sure that these travels the 2nd half of August 2007 will be his final flights. After 3 weeks of visiting his family, the author returns home to his 3 volunteer tasks, tutoring 6 Korean women in correct English writing, delivering Meals on Wheels, and working 3 mornings for 3 days in Abington Hospital. He makes plans to spend 10 days in New York City the end of September to attend several Metropolitan operas and several Broadway shows. Before 2007 ends, his older son's daughter makes him a great-grandfather. The author looks forward to his Las Vegas granddaughter's wedding in Atlantic City in June 2008 and to the presidential election November 4. He becomes a great-grandfather for the 2nd time just before Barack Obama is elected President of the United States.

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1440163251

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9781440163258

A Charmed Life, Amid Order and Disorder

By: Bennett Lear Fairorth

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A Charmed Life, Amid Order and Disorder

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The author, 83 and a widower, drives from a northern suburb of Philadelphia, Pa. to take his oldest daughter Jane to a lunch for Mother's Day 2010. Her two grown children live in other states. Jane, 61, is a recent grandmother. The author is a recent great-grandfather. A former teacher of high school English, the author retired in 1991 and for about 10 years traveled extensively throughout Europe but now tutors 8 adults, 6 Korean women and 2 African-Americans, for the Abington Library adult literacy program. Each of his 8 students gets an individual one-hour session one day a week. The tutors are not compensated for their gas or their time spent helping students. During the Mother's Day lunch, father and daughter talk about the upcoming primary election for U.S. Senator and the movies of Clint Eastwood. The next week the author gets a call from his twin sister, who lives in Portland, Oregon, postponing a planned visit to the east because of a fall. During a tutoring session at the Library, the author finds an unclaimed paperback edition of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." He decides to keep it to read. When not tutoring, the author enjoys listening to music, watching movies. His 3 daughters, Jane, Kate, and Tess, are divorced, live in the Philadelphia area. Each has 2 grown children. The author's son, his youngest, lives in Austin, Texas with a wife and 3 daughters, 12, 10, and 7. The author's 4 children are interested in all Philadelphia sports teams and call him occasionally about wins and losses. These calls are a source of much pleasure.

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1469700492

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9781469700496

Hi, and Thanks for Your Latest Letter

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Hi, and Thanks for Your Latest Letter

By: Bennett Lear Fairorth

The first letter received by the author, dated September 9, 1988, is from a former student from 1977 who sends happy-birthday wishes, and condolences for a double tragedy. The last 2 letters are both written Easter Sunday 2010: one, by the author to his friend Rudy. They met in first grade in September 1932; their friendship has lasted 78 years. The other letter is from the youngest of the authors 4 children, his son Matt, who was born in 1959 after 3 daughters. Matt also has 3 daughters, and in his letter conveys unexpected but good news from Austin, Texas. Before the author retires in June 1991from teaching advanced placement English for 40 years at 2 high schools, he corresponds with several former students, friends, and family, including 4 younger brothers who live in Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Seattle. After he retires, the author travels extensively on escorted tours to continental Europe and England, as well as to Turkey, and several times visits a friend in London. During his retirement years, the author battles prostate cancer and heart surgery, tutors for an adult literacy program at Abington townships public library, makes several trips to New York for Broadway shows and Metropolitan Opera productions. After Matt gives his father a laptop, the author spends most of his time writing about his travels. After his oldest grand-child marries, she gives birth to a son. The author becomes a great-grandfather.

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1469700484

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The Aardvark's Grunt, the Author's Murmur

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The Aardvark's Grunt, the Author's Murmur

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In 1986, about 20 years ago, Brent Forrester, retired high school English teacher, and a widower, bought a second-hand jacket in a thrift store in Philadelphia. It had the logo of an aardvark on one pocket. Over the years he came to see it as a kind of good-look charm for his post-retirement volunteer duties, tutoring several young men for the GED or high school equivalency diploma for Abington Library, different kinds of chores inside Abington Hospital, and delivery of Meals on Wheels for the hospital. In his spare time, Brent has written novels since his retirement, but the good-luck charm was of no help here. Despite his lack of success, he has continued to write novels. Brent does earn a little money writing reviews of theater productions for several weekly suburban newspapers. After undergoing hospital procedures for prostate cancer and later cataracts, Brent is told that he must undergo heart surgery for a worsening murmur. After a week in the hospital, he spends a week at a rehab center, and then at home with the services of a visiting nurse. After he learns that a granddaughter in California has given birth to a son, Brent travels to California and Texas to visit his two sons and some family and his new great-grandson. Brent's two daughters live in Philadelphia. After he returns home, he continues his volunteer duties, getting involved with two women volunteers. They are deeply interested in the outcome of the November 2006 mid-term elections for the U.S. House and Senate.

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0595469833

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9780595469833

Scandinavian September Sixty-Nine

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Scandinavian September Sixty-Nine

By: Bennett Lear Fairorth

For his 69th birthday in 1993, Raymond Foster, a widower and retired high school English teacher, receives a present of an 18-day escorted tour of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland from his four children.He joins 24 others, a newlywed couple from Maine, a young man whose presence is connected to a bet, four retired women in their early 60s from Minneapolis (three widows and one never married), three widows in their early 70s from Florida (originally teachers in New York), and seven married couples in their 50s, 60s, and 70s. The tour director is a handsome blonde ski instructor and model, in his early thirties who lives in Lillehammer, the site of the 1994 winter Olympics. He gets involved with one of the wives.

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0595667899

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West by Southwest

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A Charmed Life, Amid Order and Disorder

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Hi, and Thanks for Your Latest Letter

Hi, and Thanks for Your Latest Letter

The Aardvark's Grunt, the Author's Murmur

The Aardvark's Grunt, the Author's Murmur

Scandinavian September Sixty-Nine

Scandinavian September Sixty-Nine

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