Some of the events in this book took place in the sixties and seventies. Some are humorous and some are gut wrenching and will stay with me until the day I die. I did want to share with you some of the memories that took place in a time that will never be again, and some of them may eventually be lost in time. But for those of you who choose to read about them you may find a little humor or a some nostalgia as you read through the pages. Paget Newbury is a retired funeral director having served seventeen years in the funeral profession and back in the fifties, sixties and seventies it was truly a profession. After those seventeen years as a funeral director, I did a mid-life change and bought a one hundred and forty-year-old hardware business. I retired in 1995 and moved to a little town in upstate New York nestled in the foothills of the Adirondack mountains on the Great Sacandaga Lake. The peace and tranquility here is magnificent. So now I sit with my wife Faye on our dock as I have for the past fourteen years and enjoy gently sipping a martini and watch the sun set slowly in the west and remember those days over fifty years ago, What A Life!