Unique Adventures: A Memoir

Harry Gage Carpenter looks back at almost ninety years of life in this memoir that celebrates freedom, love, and hard work.

His life would change forever in 1947 when he met Doodie Kirkpatrick of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, while they were both working at Silver Bay, New York, on beautiful Lake George. He was crushed when she rejected him to date someone else, but they’d meet again a few years later, and this time they’d stay together—for more than sixty years.

Shortly after getting married to ...