> Then
> there was an old guy up here who kept bees for ever who lived to be 114,
> Bill T. may remember him.
>

Fred Hale. At the time of his death he was the oldest man in the US.
When he was in his 90s, a friend saw him on the roof over his porch,
shoveling off snow. He came back a few hours later and Fred was chopping up
firewood. He asked Fred how he got off the roof.
"Jumped."
I took a picture of him, Stan Brown, and Harold Swan and their combined
years of beekeeping was somewhere around 240 years, with Fred the oldest
and the others in their late 70s. Fred kept bees into his early 100s then
had to go to a nursing home near his kin. The other two are still keep bees
and are in their 90s.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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