by Margaret Jeary
George Taylor, the son of a shepherd, was born in 1803 in the Scottish Borders and in 1855, when he was a market gardener in Kelso, he decided to join his brothers in Kalamazoo, Michigan. There, he had a successful life as a nurseryman and when he was in his eighties, having handed the business on to his son, he wrote the story of his life. I wonder if he ever daydreamed, as he sat with his pen and ink, that one day the pages he wrote would be published as a book?