By Jennifer Moody
For Lebanon Local
Back in 1972, when Jeff Harding graduated from high school, his father offered to buy him a shiny new calculator before he enrolled at Oregon State University.
“They were new and exciting in those days,” remembered Harding, who lives near Crabtree. “I was going to study science.”
However, the younger Harding had something else in mind. “I said, can I have a pair of binoculars instead?”
His father agreed,…