2020 is a year of sadness and celebration, too. While all of us find different paths to meet the demands of a pandemic, we can also thank those who have helped make us aware and prepared. So, for Father’s Day, we asked 10 neighbors to recall what their dads gave them in terms of eco-sensitivity. We switched it : not providing a list of gifts to acquire for dad but a list of his gifts to us. Elizabeth Walton’s dad, Jerry, took her to Lake Erie for summer vacations, and Randy Schilling’s dad, Fritz, to Turkey Creek in Merrillville, Indiana, near Chicago: “We saw robins and woodpeckers. We saw muskrats swimming in the water. We saw snakes slithering in the grass. We saw squirrels climbing up trees chasing each other.” And Andy McCain’s dad, John, spent time with him in Cornville, north of Phoenix, at the getaway home for the late senator’s family: “Whenever anyone visited, he would go on and on about the trees on the property, especially the cottonwoods and the sycamores.”
