Bruce Thomas Batten (aka Uncle Tom), older sibling to Chris and Mary, and BenJamin’s uncle is the only member of the FGF team whose experience on Fiddlers Green Farm began in the 1940s.  Okay, he was a baby then, but since that time he has maintained his relationship with Fiddlers Green’s rolling hills and flowing streams, where he caught his first fish, rode his first horse, and fell into his first manure spreader while shoveling out the dairy barn.  A US Navy veteran like his father and grandfather, he now lives in Alaska with spouse Toni London, not far from his sister Mary.  But he remains the only member of the family to have been mauled by a polar bear.  Okay, it was a baby polar bear.  And it was more like a scratch.  But it almost broke the skin, and PTSD from the incident helps explain some of his erratic behavior.