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Autobiography Feature

Bruce (Farrington) Coville

Bruce (Farrington) Coville contributed the following autobiographical essay to SATA:

I was born straddling two days, and two eras, and have lived a divided life ever since.

As for the two days—my official birthday is May 16.

Author bruce coville biography of mahatma

But I was born between midnight and 1:00 A.M. If Daylight Savings Time had not artificially pushed the clock ahead, the date would have been May 15.

The eras? Well, the year was 1950, smack in the middle of the last century.

The country was moving out of the war years and into an uncertain future. The atomic age had started, and we were teetering at the edge of the technological explosion that has now come to dominate all aspects of our life.

I arrived at St.

Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, NY—not two miles from where I sit as I write these words. I did not grow up as a city kid, though; we lived about twenty miles outside of Syracuse.

A few months