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Richard Gartee to Read from His Latest Book
October 14, 2018, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Skating on Skim Ice is a biography of a time traveler who has journeyed ninety-three years from the past—from the age of Prohibition to the age of smart phones.
Richard Andrew Gartee, known to friends and relatives as Dick Gartee, is the author’s father. He was born in the Roaring Twenties, survived the Great Depression of the thirties, enlisted in World War II in the forties, and raised a family and learned engineering in the Fabulous Fifties. He watched men walk on the moon in the sixties, constructed factories in the seventies, designed robotics for manufacturers in the eighties, and served as a hospital chaplain in the twenty-first century.
His biography is more than the story of one man’s trials and joys. It is a lens into life during transformative decades that altered America. Dick is among the dwindling few of his generation still alive. The eras he not only witnessed but he also actively participated in inform the reader’s understanding of the radical paradigm shift he has seen occur in nearly every aspect of our society: economics, agriculture, transportation, education, manufacturing, and communications, to name a few.
No matter what your age, you will be charmed by Dick’s story and discover a man you wished you knew.