Memoirs over a Span of Seventy-Five Years

About the Book

Arthur Richardson has enjoyed plenty of adventures over his seventy-five years, and he shares the most exciting ones in these memoirs.

Growing up in Massachusetts and later New Hampshire, he remembers banging caps on the sidewalk and enjoying the noise they gave off. Once, he reached into a piece of sheet metal and learned you shouldn’t stick your hands into dark places because they might be a home to several thousand hornets.

He also shares lessons such as:

• Don’t sit down on the eye end of a threaded sewing needle because it really hurts.

• Don’t wander down a small, wooded path without first looking for spider webs.

• Be kind to animals—especially if they’re twenty-five times heavier than you.

As a seventeen-year-old, he joined the Navy Reserve and began traveling the world in the 1950s. It didn’t take him long to realize how lucky he was to be an American. The most enduring constant in his life, however, has been Dorothy, who he gave a ring when he was twenty and she was nineteen. He celebrates their love, his family, and a bygone era in Memoirs over a Span of Seventy-Five Years.

About the Author

Arthur Richardson grew up in Massachusetts New Hampshire and broke his school’s pole vault record as a high school senior. He served six years as a quartermaster in the U.S. Navy Reserves and spent thirty years as a mechanical engineer. He’s is a district grand master in the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts.