84-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 6, 1988
The Greene Philosophy:
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They’ve been to Europe twice,
Hawaii once and gone “around the
world in 80 days” on the QE2.
They love to travel and pledged to
do so while they could enjoy it to
the fullest. They earned the money
the hard way. Said Mary, “The
whole time we had the dairy, we
just kept our heads right to the
grindstone. In fact, I can hardly
remember ever going out to dinner
all the time we had dairy cattle.”
Still, they’ve done just about
everything anybody could want to
do. Said Mary, “If we die tomor
row, we can’t complain. It’s been
wonderful.” And their, travels have
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We had very pleasant weather
for our trip to New York State. The
first night was spent with our
daughter, Cindy, who cooked us a
nice venison meal. Then she drove
us through game lands in Wyom
ing County and we saw five deer,
one racoon and one porcupine. I’d
never realized before how awk
wardly a porcupine moves. This
large rodent with its stiff sharp
bristles lumbered across the road
in front of us as we moved slowly
through the woods.
We were lucky in finding the
three couples that we visited as we
only had their addresses. Yet each
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only made them more fully appre
ciate what they have at home. Said
John, “There’s no nation on earth
that’s been blest like this country.”
The idea to share their inspira
tional story with others first came
from Dr. B. Leonard Snider, an
Erie dermatologist, and Dr. Barry
D. Stamm, Chief Opthamologist at
Hamot Hospital in Erie. The book,
hot off the presses, has been
endorsed by the Erie Diabetes
Association. Mary had Dr. David
Kirkpatrick read it over for medi
cal accuracy. He indicated that it
gave “support to the beginning
diabetic to let them know that they
can lead a normal life.”
lime that we phoned, we were only
a few blocks or a few miles away.
The first couple in Homer, N.Y.
had recently moved from their
poultry farm into a house in town.
They showed us their home and
garden and insisted that we stay for
lunch. She even gave me several
zucchini recipes as I’d taken some
along for her.
The next family lived near
Auburn, N.Y. I had not seen
them since 1981 when we went to
Europe together. Their farm house
had burned last year and a new one
was built on the old foundation.
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Other “diabetes how-to” books
lay out “dos and don’ts” but Mary
has a real ministry to the diabetic.
She knows what it is to go to work
with it and live with it. She gives
no medical advice. She just speaks
from her experience. Needless to
say, Mary is in demand as a moti
vational speaker for diabetics. She
is scheduled to speak at the spring
rally of the American Diabetic
Association, Harrisburg.
When she first wrote her book, a
publisher wanted to make it into a
sympathetic “feel sorry for Mary
book.” That’s not what she had in
mind. The book presents the
They even surprised us by inviting
another couple who I knew. We
were shown his big garden and
allowed to pick a box oflarge red
raspberries from some bushes in
their yard. I had taken some of my
garden sweet com along for them.
We did a bit of fishing from the
shores of the Susquehanna River
and also Lake Stevens as we hadn’t
taken our boat along on the trip. I
caught three small perch but threw
them back. On the way home we
slopped at Amot and saw a couple
that we met on the Alaska trip last
year. He has a large flower garden.
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