In his inspirational new memoir, Breaking New Ground, Lester Brown traces life from a small farm to leadership as a global environmental analyst. Here is a selection of photos from his family life.

1. FAMILY LIFE
photos of Lester R. Brown

2. Great Grandparents
George and Martha
Harvey Cain

3. Grandpop and Grandmom Brown

4. Calvin Brown (Lester’s father)
inside car. Nicholas Brown
(grandfather) standing outside

5. Dehlia Smith and Calvin
Brown (mother and father),
circa 1933

6. Calvin Brown

7. Lester, five years old

8. Lester and his younger brother Carl

9. The Brown Family:
l to r: Carl, Mom,
Lester, Pop, Marion

10. Lester’s father with his mules.

11. Stow Creek Elementary School graduates

12. Carl tending the pheasants

13. Planting tomatoes

14. The Brown
Brothers’ truck

15. Lester loading a tractor trailer with 600 baskets of tomatoes, 1958

16. More tomatoes

17. A teenaged Lester at home

18. Lester and his tractor for the tomato growing operation

19. In his new Chevy

20. The family farm, current day

21. Lester, wife Shirley,
and son Brian, 1960

22. Lester and Brian

23. The Brown family:
Brian, Lester, Brenda,
and Shirley

24. Family time

25. Lester and Brenda, 1983

26. Brian’s college graduation day, 1982

27. Graduation day for Brenda from veterinary school, 1994

28. Lester and Brian, 1985

29. Lester and granddaughter
Bridget, 1994

30. Atop one of the Rocky mountains
during a hiking trip with Brian in 1989.

31. Sister Marion razzing Lester while Carl awaits his turn at Lester’s
sixtieth birthday celebration at the Cosmos Club, Washington, DC, 1994

32. Brenda and Brian with Lester at sixtieth birthday

33. Elke and Uwe Gessner, long-lost cousins from the former East
Germany, at Lester’s sixtieth birthday celebration

34. Uwe, Christine (daughter) and Elke Gessner

35. Maureen Kuwano Hinkle, Lester, Marion Spence, Carl & Mary Brown, and Bob Spence, 2004

36. Lester with his extended Brown family, 2009, taken at reception following the Smithsonian Museum of
American History event, A Conversation with Lester Brown. L to r: Darlene Rosenberger, niece; brother-in-
law Bob Spence, sister Marion Spence; Brian; Alison Dance; granddaughter Bridget; grandniece Olivia
Rosenberger; Maureen Kuwano Hinkle; granddaughter Lena; sister-in-law Mary Lou Brown; brother Carl;
Brenda; and grandson Cash (front). Photo by Hugh Talman.

37. Lester, Alison Dance, and Brian. Aspen, CO, 2010

38. Hiking with Brian in Alaska’s Denali National Forest, 2011

39. The Haun Family:
Lena, Chris,
Brenda, Bridget,
and Cash, 2011

40. Blondeen & John Gravely, Maureen Kuwano Hinkle & Lester, Bob and Marion
Spence. University of Maryland, Hall of Fame Induction reception, 2011

41. Fiftieth Reunion, Rutgers Class of 1955. Photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle

42. Bridgeton High School 60th Reunion.
Photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle

43. Bridgeton High School, 2011
(photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle)

44. Lena, Brenda, Bob, Bridget, Cash, Lester, Marion, Brian, and Shirley. Aspen, CO, 2011

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