Fred Hale is a Maine beekeeper who reached his 110 year birthday this past December. He attended our Annual Meeting until the year before last. When he was just over 100, a friend came by and Fred was on his porch roof shoveling off the accumulated snow. A bit later he came by and Fred was shoveling off the side walk. "How did you get down, Fred?", he asked. "Jumped" Fred is now in New York to be close to his family so Maine no longer has the oldest beekeeper in the US. He kept bees well into his 90s. I had the privilege of taking a picture of three Maine beekeepers who had a combined length of beekeeping of over 200 years. Fred was most of that. Only reason I am posting this is I was reminded of him by a headline that the oldest person in the world was now in Italy. Fred is a close second. He was and is a kind, generous man and a fine beekeeper. Bill Truesdell Bath, ME