Albert Ebert, 98, recounts nearly a century of life — June 28, 2018

Albert Willard Ebert turned 98 on June 26, 2018. As a young child, he lived at Rose Hill and remembers when Western Avenue was a single lane. His family later moved to a farm on what is now Hamilton Street but was then referred to as Cow Flop Lane. He and his wife, Andrea, whom he first saw as a beautiful girl playing hopscotch, have been married 75 years. He survived a near-fatal accident at the Altamont Fair and graduated in 1938 from Altamont High School in what was then its largest class — of 33. He spoke for our podcast from the Hamilton Street home he built with his own hands, a place to raise his three daughters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.