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Northshore October 2025
  In the early 1980s, a group of Army reservists were strolling through the Topsfield Fair when they saw an old farmer selling blueberries from his truck. The farmer put aside his fruit and approached the soldiers, shaking their hands and congratulating them for their service. “Next day, I got a phone call from [their commanding officer] and he said, ‘My men stopped at the Topsfield Fair and said some crazy old hoot of a farmer thought he was General Patton and was running around shaking hands,’” says Joanne Patton, now 85. The “old hoot” was Mrs. Patton’s late husband, Army Major Genera
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