As a kid Tim Stone fell in love with his grandfather's dairy farm in Marion on the South Coast of Massachusetts, so in the late 1980s he decided to try to make a go of it.
But when the price of milk kept falling, he had to get out, so he disbanded the dairy operation in 1995. But he didn't give up on Great Hill Farm.
Sylvia Bloom worked for 67 years as a secretary at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and accumulated a personal fortune of more than $9 million.
Bloom did this by being "frugal" and "by shrewdly observing the investments made by the lawyers she served," reports the New York Times, which broke the story Monday on its front page.
