I met Steve at Starbucks. His shirt said "Whitehead 1901." I asked him what that meant. He didn't know; his son gave him the shirt.
By the time I came back outside after ordering a coffee, Steve had looked it up. Whitehead was a man who claimed to invent manned flight two years before the Wright Brothers.
Steve grew up in the wealthy nearby town of Darien. His father was a successful lawyer and his brother was a good scholar, but Steve didn't like formal education. So, he became a machinist.
An interesting guy. We had a good conversation.
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