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  • From: "Ed Fackler" <rocmdw@aye.net>
  • To: "NAFEX-Greetings" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Re: Pear Stuff??
  • Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 06:37:24 -0500

Anton, you wrote------------
 
4.  Finally a question 'specially for Ed.  I was reading Brooks Drain's
"Southern Pear Breeding" (ASHS, 1955) and noticed this footnote on page
301:  "Records previous to 1941 were kept by ... and H.L. Fackler."  Is
this kinfolk of yours or are ya'll a pair of unrelated pear experts?

     My response----------
 
     Firstly, the classic definition of "expert" is an age-old misnomer.  According
to geological digs the key element of this word is simply "ex".  Or as my late friend
and pear researcher, Paul Steiner used to say "the more I learn of these facts the less
I believe in them"!!
 
     Re: my kinship to H.L. Fackler, I don't have a clue and don't intend to
pursue it.  My wife did a 10 year geneology on her family and discovered many
surprises in her lineage.  Sometimes it is best to let history rest!!!
 
     I wish all a very fruitful 2003.
 
Ed, Mid-Ohio, snowy heaven, etc.



  • [NAFEX] Re: Pear Stuff??, Ed Fackler, 12/26/2002

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