by Craig Jones | May 30, 2019 | Craig Jones Notebook, Features, Our Father's Legacy
Craig Jones Columnist My dad died when I was five, in 1959. Lung cancer, non-smoker, who knows why, one chance in a million or billion (I don’t know) lung cancer, when he was younger than either of my sons are now. Any thoughts I have ever had about legacy and any...
by Jim Ellis | May 29, 2019 | Features, Our Father's Legacy
In a recent post on an Mentor Discover Inspire Facebook page, a question was posed. A pretty darn revealing question: “In a word, a phrase or a sentence, what is your father’s legacy?” And you … what is your father’s legacy? Tell us in...
by Justin LaBarge | May 29, 2019 | Features, Our Father's Legacy
There are many ways to express a person’s legacy. I wish to share my father’s legacy through samples of his artwork. Insightful, passionate with a touch of whimsy, his expression spread through many mediums. Now, on his 83rd birthday I would like to share...
by Jim Ellis | May 28, 2019 | Features, Our Father's Legacy
James Anthony Ellis Editor, Legacy Magazine A legacy born. I guess that’s me. It’s on my shoulders, in a way. Just as it was for my father – James Arthur – with his own father – James Arnot – before him. I imagine we all carry a bit...
by Dan Kempner | May 28, 2019 | Features, Our Father's Legacy
Dan Kempner Columnist Come this fall, I will have been dead for twenty years. That’s a long time and it gives a man room to think. Father Scattered here, in this slow-bending creek, and mixed here and there with the powdered bones of my second wife, I’ve pondered a...
by Guest Writer | May 27, 2019 | Features, Our Father's Legacy
Ben Estes Executive Vice President, Mentor Discover Inspire My father’s name was Benjamin Lewis Estes. He was born on June 24, 1920 and died on November 17, 1999. He was 9 years old when the Great Depression began. When he was 10, he found himself living in an...
