Posted on 08/21/2025 4:19:46 PM PDT by kawhill
He was born December 19, 1928, in New York City, to George A. Shumway and Orpha Johnson Shumway He grew up in Manhasset, N.Y. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Middlebury College in 1950 and a Masters degree in geophysics from M.I.T. in 1951.
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ALF’s father?
GMTA
I don’t think anyone at Middlebury would have anything to do with long guns these days.
HA! You kill me!
Wut do it meen?
Sounds like an interesting gentleman and a life well lived.
For anyone on a public forum, who might have some interest in the building of an American Flintlock Rifle, these books should get you started, at least geometrically.
https://www.americanlongrifles.org/Books_Essentials.htm
I had no idea so many people would remember ALF’s real name. For some reason it came up in a conversation with a friend just last week.
Old guys mostly, I’d bet.... But not quite old enough to have forgotten. ;-)
Although re-runs of it are currently on Laff TV, and I have watched it there a few times when I couldn’t find anything else to watch.
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