Carpenter, Cal

"Cal" Carpenter is Colonel Clarence A. Carpenter, U. S. Air Force (Retired), wartime pilot and Meteorologist. He lives on ALMAR Farm, a 70-acre retirement home near Rosman, N. C., in the scenic Great Smoky Mountains. He retired in l966, at the age of 44, to "do just what I wanted to." This has included dabbling in farming, animal husbandry (including the legendary Wild Russian Boars he writes about in his earlier book, "The Walton War and Tales of the Great Smoky Mountains"); and writing his experiences on the farm in his earlier "The Best from ALMAR Farm in Western North Carolina." He was a