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friends and family. Fruit trees, heavy with peaches and apples, stand off to one side, trellises support grape vines and flowers in beds scattered around the yard and bordering the driveway burst with color. Roses—deep crimson, blood red, blushing pink, creamy ivory and sunshine yellow—are obviously the family favorite.
As with his pursuit of education, gardening is more than a free-time hobby for John Williams. He puts the same energy behind the trowel and hoe that he devotes to his books, getting the same first class results with both. But for all the hours he devotes to the earth, gardening takes second place to learning.
It was learning that drew Williams to Lord Fairfax at the outset. It's learning plus something more that has kept him at his studies long past the age when the obituary page replaces school books as the top choice in reading material.
"In school. I’m always with young people. Folks my age talk ‘old talk'—they’ve got a pain here, got a pain there, got this sickness or that sickness. It makes you feel old just to listen. I'm still learning, still with young people. Learning is fun and it keeps me a little bit young myself.”
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