Montana Parallels and Perpendiculars
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INTRODUCTION This is a story of four young Montanans: my late grandfather, Simpson Grant Hammond (SG), two of his high school buddies from Winchester, Kentucky, brothers Solon B. (Liz), and Charlie Kennedy, whom I’ll call “the Boys,” and me. Winchester lies in the Bluegrass Country, east of Lrxington, and just north of Paris. We led strikingly different lives, of course. But there were also similarities. First, both SG and I were, are, 32nd Degree Masons, like SG’s son, Bill, my Dad. So I’ve accordingly titled my account as the “parallels and perpendiculars” of our lives. That is because Masons study geometry as a way of building character.
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Fishtail was the name of the tiny town where the Boys decided to pitch their homestead shack; they were three high school buddies from Winchester, Kentucky. In 1911, the Boys had stepped off an iron horse in Billings; one hundred years later, author Charles G. Hammond boarded an aluminum bird in Billings for his first trip overseas. Hammond compares and contrasts his and his grandfather’s lives in this tale of new adventures.
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Charles Grant “Chuck” Hammond was born in 1948 in south central Montana; he received a BS in chemical engineering in 1970 and a JD in 1980. Hammond worked for twenty-five years in the Saudi Arabian oilfields and is now retired on twenty-five acres near Tucson with his wife, their four dogs, two cats, two horses, and two burros.