Best of Both Worlds - Technology - Nature

Summers and winter vacations on Wyman Lake in Maine with my grandparents in Maine. Winters with my parents in Nashua New Hampshire in southern NH.

​The best of both worlds. My grandmother got me interested in botanicals and herbal medicine. We would walk along the trails. Grams would pick herbs and tell me about them, and their constituents. She would tell me about how my father had cancer as a baby and could not walk, because of it. She speculated that it happened as a result of a dog jumping up on her when she was pregnant and hurting my father as a fetus.

My grandmother took my father to Boston Children’s Hospital, his life was saved with the experimental use of radium. And when he was a little older, he developed a streptococcus infection that landed in his kidneys. It was before Alexander Fleming had discovered penicillin. I would read about Fleming, a great explorer, researcher. I would learn about the herbs and had books on their constituents.

My parents got me interested in the sciences and more in botanicals, chemistry, and the identification of animals and plants. We had a library that was a wall in the dining room.  Multiple shelves.  My guinea pig was in a box on a stand next to them.  She would climb out of her box during the day, when I was in grade school and eat some of the bindings on the books.

​Sassafras was her name. She was housebroken. So usually she got the run of the house. I remember my mom having a neighbor over for coffee. The guinea pig came running out from under the couch and startled the neighbor.  My mom saying, “oh that’s Otto’s guinea  pig and she is housebroken.”

​Nashua was home to Sanders Associates, a defense/intelligence center, north of 128 which wraps around Boston. It was rolling hills that were turned into roaming neighborhoods, houses all unique and to fit the hillsides. The waves of veterans and their families from

Massachusetts and high technology universities came into the area and brought along the aspies. At that time we were referred to as the ‘free spirits,’ the ‘out of the box,’ thinkers, and when not allowed to be ‘free spirits,’ developed Into ADHD, hyperactivity, and became aggressive. Neurodivergent, unique, not drugged as an economy.

Parents bought their kids sports equipment, musical equipment, and the sciences. My folks bought me things for scientific exploration. I had microscopes, slides, a little chemistry set, and then another chemistry set. I had oodles of chemicals of all sorts. Science is fun.

Nashua was an area of high IQs. The schools promoted the sciences and also the history of the revolution as standard, every year. We were groomed for exploration. The space race focused on greater exploration. The microscopes zoomed us in on the microcosm and space into the macrocosm. Chemistry and biology the framework of matter and life itself. All of these, are the maps of the universe and life, the true maps of the matrix of God for us to study and investigate. We would learn about everything, there was no greater nation than the United States, we were free to think, to speculate, to express ourselves to explore.

​Thousands of defense workers came into the area. Old abandoned factories and buildings from the age of fabric mills, shoe mills, and sweatshops were restored, transferred into the new age of technology.   The owners of the area practiced fair business practices. The merger of the intelligence and the residents was smooth and cohesive, everyone prospered. Sanders was the largest employer in the area. The company paid for the schooling of employees, and many took the exploration to the next level of discovery. Kick-starting the personal computer with a computer code that was used in all computer games. Sanders filed lawsuits against all the first companies that used it.

The support systems for the defense industry sprang into other businesses and created a vast economic boom, that put Nashua as the fastest growing city in the nation. One man, Roydan Sanders, with his vision and his team, working with him, created empires that are still felt today. All working together with other great minds, each making one step, each working together to create the technological revolution that we are just beginning today. Ralph H. Baer, the “Father of Video Games” came from the environment of free spirits, explorers.