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["Ed Fackler" <rocmdw@aye.net>]

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.