Memoirs as Writers' Resource
My company has just published Eight Decades from Busti to Baltimore, the autobiography of Norman Hazzard. Subtitle: A simple farm boy’s American journey of growth and discovery. Norm grew up on a dairy farm in the hamlet of Busti, N.Y. and became a math teacher and a mathematician and cryptographer with the National Security Agency outside Baltimore. After retiring, he went on to teach math at the local community college. Most of us have no idea what farm life is like in t