FROM LIFE IN THE HAMPTONS TO A LIFE OF POVERTY IN ARKANSAS

About the Book

This book consists of 148 significant events in the author’s life.. Perhaps the best way to explain this is to include one event here. It is termed: Sex Education Soon, however, we moved again. When I was about thirteen, we lived on a small farm in south central Arkansas. The farm consisted of about 80 acres of land, 40 of which were in woodland and the other 40 in worn out rocky soil on which cotton had been raised for a number of years One day, my dad asked me to go to a neighbor’s house and get a dozen to fifteen eggs to put under a setting hen. I complied, brought the eggs home and per his instructions put them carefully under the hen that was sitting in a box with straw in it. She did not like it as she pecked at me whenever I tried to put an egg under her. I guess she thought I was trying to steal her eggs. I finally succeeded although she could peck hard and it hurt. About three weeks later, those eggs began to explode. Boom! Then another boom. They were all rotten. Something was wrong. Since it was one of my chores to take care of the chickens, I went to my father and told him those eggs I bought were no good. None of them had hatched! He paused a moment and then said. “Did you ask Mr. Keisler if he had a rooster before you bought those eggs?” Puzzled, I replied, “No, why should I? You said you wanted some eggs, not a rooster.” “Son,” he said, “Come sit down. I think it is time you and I had a little talk.”

About the Author

After serving five years in the Navy during WWII, William D. Hedges taught high school physics, biology, and mathematics for some years, later becoming a principal and college professor. He taught 44 years. Concerned about the attacks on the teaching of evolution by biology teachers he decided to fight back with a concise, 100 page analysis describing the contradictions, fallacies and weak underpinnings of Christianity, Creationism and Intelligent Design. He believes as Jefferson: “We are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error as long as reason is left free to combat it.”