Hawkeye touched many lives, and I feel the need to share how he touched mine. I first met him in 1959 or 1960. My grandfather and his sister owned Split Rock Farm at the time and we kids would be sent up there to spend a few weeks or more most every...

In the 1950s and 60s, my grandparents owned Split Rock Farm, just down the road from Hawkeye's great collection of mechanical wonders, and a stone's throw from Nancy's Shamrock Inn.  One day while sitting on the porch, a stripped down...