The view From Here: Towns like ours

GARFIELD –– Towns like ours are places where people tend to go about their daily routine without much fanfare. They support their community, strive to be good neighbors, and, on the surface, seem to have pretty interchangeable stories. Until you begin to have a conversation with them and discover that, almost to a person, they’ve done something or been somewhere that is most worthy of hearing. What I’m about to share fits in that category. It is the story of Pat Pettichord.

A few years ago, Reverend Marty Masten shared with me a seven-page autobiography that I’ve re-read numerous times. Here i...