Ed MacCormack - A Life Well Lived

A Life Well Lived is a factual odyssey of a person born during the Depression years as a first generation immigrant and the type of life's experience in those days. His early schooling at a parochial grammar and high school, the devastating 1938 Hurricane, early sports, the disastrous Cocoanut Grove fire, the difficulties of WW II rationing, service during the Korean War, entrance into the State Police with numerous situations of sometimes hilarious incidents in the law enforcement profession as well as marriage and raising a family, purchasing and updating the first home, furthering education goals, and ensuring the children's education.

The author retired at age 46 to a second career as a Nuclear Security Specialist for Boston Edison Co., took up learning the bagpipe, and played with a pipe band. He also became a watercolorist. In 1991, he filed suit against the Company for age discrimination. He retired again in 1994, and is enjoying life at eighty years.