Adventures in the Garden

About the Book

Within Dr, Aaron’s memories and dreams, there lives a child named Little Sonny Freeman. Sonny wrote these poems.

About the Author

Aaron E. Freeman is a scientist, author or coauthor of some 100 papers published in peer review journals. He has a BS degree in education and a MS degree in bacteriology from The George Washington University. He was awarded a PhD. from the Catholic University of America in 1964. His first papers with Dr. Harry Eagle were studies on the nutritional requirements of mammalian cells in culture. Later works with Dr, Robert J Huebner were on the oncogene hypothesis. Dr Freeman identified and classified the oncogenic human adenoviruses. He developed a rat cell transformation assay for carcinogenic chemicals. With Dr, Howard J. Igel of The Children’s Hospital of Akron, he developed a method for cultivating human skin in vitro to use as homografts for burn victims. In later years, Dr. Freeman published on the role of basement membrane components, fibronectin, laminin and collagen 4 on the growth and differentiation of fetal liver cells.