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How My Father Helped Me Become a Maker

I was born in the early 1950s, and our first family home was in a rural area of Lehigh County in Pennsylvania. My dad, Karson Albert, worked as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company, but during WWII he served in the Merchant Marines as a Midshipman on the Liberty ships. At the start of WWII, the US did not have the capacity to ship goods and people at a level needed to support the war effort overseas. Liberty ships were...