Irv Farmer

Irv Farmer was a short, skinny white man with sandy colored hair in his late twenties. He had studied physics at Berkeley and worked in a laboratory near Southbridge, Massachusetts. He met and became friends with Hank Jeter there.

One afternoon, during an experiment at the lab, a car knocked down a power pole nearby, cutting power to the building. A back-up generator kicked in, re-energizing the equipment but the lights were not on the circuit leaving the windowless room pitch black. Someone retrieved a flashlight and the section chief ordered everyone to leave the building. By the time everyone regrouped in the parking lot, it was quarter past four so the section chief sent a couple of people back in to shut down the experiment and everyone else home. Farmer and Jeter went to their favorite hang-out, The Lair for a drink.