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Dad was a great bartender and manager, and proud of it, from bartending in the Boston area or San Francisco to managing the intentional community's wooden toy and educational play equipment factory or the Weston Golf Club.

He was always sought after by women, and proud of that too, and the fact that he was largely educated by intelligent women.

The greatest family memories are mostly all camping. We did camping trips across the whole country. Nearby, he loved Bear Town State Forest.

Dad is the Dad out of Bill Cosby, the father you don't mess with. This reputation was well solidified camping out west, when the one time one of us shot a rubber-suction-cup arrow at him, he caught it in the air, one-handed.