My wife complains I save too much.

She, of course, is correct.

I save so much I can’t find what I’m looking for…but I will and, when I do, it goes up on YouTube.

While searching for this “prize,” I found this text book.

Actually, I found it at the Rummage Sale of the First United Methodist Church this past fall. It cost a quarter because it is a paperback,

But, it’s the same text on ecology that I studied for a week at Knox College during the summer between my junior and senior years in high school in 1959.

Most McHenry County Blog readers probably think a politically interested guy like me would have wanted to go to Boys State.

Both events were held the same week.

I picked the one on ecology.

This was what we read:

”basic ECOLOGY”

by Ralph and Mildred Buchsbaum.

And we went into an old strip mine, laid a string across a valley and noted every living thing the string touched.

I’m pretty sure my book was a 1957 first edition. This one is the tenth edition, reprinted in 1970, a year after Earth Day. The year of Earth Day, the Crystal Lake Jaycees had a “Pollution Alert” booth at the McHenry County Fair.