Meet Lee: 90 Memories for My Grandpa’s 90th

1.     My grandpa is the first one to read my newsletters, or my book, or anything that goes out on the Internet with my name on it.

2.     I know this because he emails me with his thoughts. I have a folder of emails strictly from my grandpa.

3.     Most people start to become their mothers when they get older. I have her quiet laugh and quiet observation. I also have my dad’s wit and hazel eyes. But I also notice as I get older my grandpa in me, though we grew up in completely different worlds.

4.     Lee Moyer grew up on a farm in eastern PA, outside of Boyertown, which is outside of Pottstown, which is an hour outside of Philadelphia.

5.     He has an older brother, Donald, and a younger sister, Kay, who still lives on the farm where multiple generations of family have lived. The biggest asset they sold on the farm, as far as I’m aware, is Christmas trees.

6.     He hated the butchering of chickens, plotted running away from home when he didn’t get his way, and walked 1.5 miles to a o…