Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part series. An old Chinese proverb says “When an old man dies, a library burns down.” With no man was this truer than with Grant Tinker, my father-in-law, who died recently.
Ronda Rich: Natural storyteller Grant Tinker is now gone
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