Hometown Gardner

Father’s Day. Best wishes to all you Dads, Granddads, Great Granddads, and Dads soon to be. I miss my Dad and wish I had made a better son. We seemed to be opposites. He wore the suit and wanted that for me. I preferred blue jeans.

Leonard Paul Dowlearn was a college professor. He’s been gone a good 20 years now but I still get his former students telling me something he did that changed them for t…