MBA alum pens book of family stories

Peter Hitt (MBA '70) wrote to tell us about his new book Palace in the Fields is now available via the Kindle Bookstore. An engineer-turned-small-business-owner, Hitt penned Palace in order to capture some of the stories about his siblings growing up on a farm in southern Maryland in the 1940s and 1950s before they escaped his memory.

His family moved from suburbia to a tobacco farm for 10 years. The farmhouse turned out to be "Dent's Palace," a former colonial plantation manor which his parents restored to an elegant showplace. Farm play, work activities and interaction with the unforgettable characters who were his neighbors has provided a slice of Americana "which probably does not exist anymore."

"This is my first publishing experience although I have some other manuscripts of my other experiences as a young man," he writes. "But some of the material is not in accordance with my image as a father and grandfather, so I am reluctant to publish anything else."

Hitt earned his MBA in 1970 at TCU at night while working full time at General Dynamics as an Aerosystems
Engineer. Later, he worked several years as a cable television general manager and was responsible for the construction and operation the original cable television in Jacksonville, Fla. "When the system sold, I opened a home inspection business and am still at it," he writes.

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