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Caught in a casual interview, Larry shares a few stories and laughs.
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“Learning to be alone was probably one of the most valuable lessons for me.  It goes back to those days in the fields in Aroostook County.”

“Everybody worked from the time we were old enough. That’s the only way you had any money.  I never thought about it, I just knew I had to work.  My whole family was like that.”

“We were poor, but nobody told us.  We had a lot of fun and developed a good sense of humor from our parents.  We were very fortunate.”

“I never ever wanted to be anyone but me.  In my whole life, I never said, ‘Oh, I wish I could have been so and so.’ I have always been happy in my own skin, as they say, and that came from Mom and Dad and the philosophy they instilled – that I could be whatever I chose to be.”

“Keith says we got our athletic ability from our father and our smarts and persistence from Mom.  Basketball, baseball and track were a big thing for us.  There was never football in Aroostook County because that was potato season.”

“Dad used to call me an ‘article’.  ‘Well,’ he’d say, ‘I sent that article down to the University of Maine for four years, and all he could learn to do was say ‘terrific’.”