From Dawn to Midnight - by Patrick McFadden (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Patrick McFadden tells his story in his own words during the winter of his life surrounding his many adventures, accomplishments, and failures over the past seventy-five years of his life providing boundless reflection on what it was like growing up in central Pennsylvania on a farm where horses were boarded, attending a one room school, when neighbors living a mile away were considered family and everyone helped each other during time of need. Telephones were shared on a party line, and you had to call the local phone company owner in order to make a long-distance call. His father's farm was purchased on a handshake and Twenty-Five Dollars a month payments. The cost of groceries for a family of six was twenty-five dollars a week, Gasoline was sold for twenty-five cents a gallon, cigarettes were twenty-five cents a pack, and there was no such thing as air conditioning. As he grew older, His first but not last emergency participation was the possible melt down of the Three-Mile island Nuclear Power plant "TMI". What it was like to be executive director of a large nine-hundred and ten square mile area responsible for the safety and security of over one-half a million residents. The world during and after the attacks on nine-eleven including some little-known insight about United Airlines flight 93 which went down in Shanksville Pennsylvania.