From The Ground Up: The Life and Times of Jack F. Hooper

Jack Hooper has been many things in his life: pilot, cowboy, international economist, a college professor who holds a PhD from Berkeley, farmer--producing a million tons of tomatoes in a single year; he was also an inventor, entrepreneur, husband, father and, presently, is inn keeper of the historic home that he and his wife--the love his life, Mona Briand Hooper, saved from demolition and restored to its current beauty. A self-made man who was born into the Great Depression, Jack spent muc...