Longevity
Hale was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest licensed driver at age 108 when he gave up driving because he found slow drivers annoying.
Fred was the oldest retired railway postal worker ever and the oldest registered beekeeper ever, among other honors and records. He often related the true story of his last successful deer hunt at age 100 in Missouri.
Fred credited his longevity and having no arthritis, to bee pollen and honey which he ate every day, along with the occasional nip of whiskey.
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“Every thing teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)