from a 1995 letter of Copeland
Greene: our fathers were members
on the first American Breeders
artificial insemination board.
I am curious as to the progress
of your book. My impression is
that you have an overabundance
of material difficult to sort. To
establish a central theme and an
interesting story flow are a cross
every author bears. We, children
of Howard and Elsa Greene, are
experiencing such a problem as we
write a series of short stories about
the family and business. Our kids
are urging us to write the stories we
tell them about our younger days.
We are not sure whether they use it
as a technique to shut us up or are
truly interested. But we are having
so much fun we really don’t care.
We are finding our impressions of
the same event to be quite different!
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2016.
