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Wisdom isn’t something that is created; it’s something that is discovered. In June, Bet Smith will be 101 years old, and she has discovered many of the secrets to life that so many of us are searching for. Born in 1916, Hilda Elizabeth (Bet) Sanders was 25 years old when she married Walter Snowdon Smith, III in October 1941. Snowdon joined the military, and in December, lost his leg in the bombing at Pearl Harbor. After World War II, he earned a law degree in Syracuse and went to work fitting amputees and advancing the science of prosthetics. Snowdon and Bet had a family that today includes four children, five grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. In 1972, Snowdon and Bet moved to North Eastham, Cape Cod without any definitive plans as to what they would do once they were there. “He said, ‘We’ll dream up something’,” said Bet. They spent a year renovating and established The Wildfowlers, a wildfowl art and antiques gallery. “We loved the Cape, it was marvelous. We spent 13 years there and loved every minute doing it,” said Bet.
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