Life Lessons from Pigs

Marshal Rabedeau was a plain man who lived his days along the Chazy River near the village of Champlain, New York. His icy-blue eyes and instant smile belied the price that sixty years of farming does to the human form. Some teach and meter out their wisdom around a podium or in an office where the fee is measured by the minute. Then there's the Marshal Rabedeau's of the world who come in coveralls and sun-faded shirts, who could signal with one callused finger and say, “Boys, the work is this way."

