Many of you know that I have a carpentry column in the Boston Sunday Globe. If you know the column, then you also know that before it was "The Globe Carpenter," it was called "Handyman on Call," and was written by Peter Hotton. [photo above]
Peter's, who was 87, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer.
Peter, continued writing columns and fielding phone calls part time for years after retiring from full-time work. He wrote over 6,800 articles about home repair during his half-century at the Globe.
He was an inspiration to me in my early years. He was the guy who had ALL the answers to what it seemed like ALL of my handyman problems. He made the hard stuff seem easy, and more important, doable.
Peter Hotton, you will be missed.
