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Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born in a small town of Susquehanna, Pennsylvania on March 20th, 1904. Susquehanna is now mostly deserted, and it was a rather dirty railroad town, but it is located in a river valley. Skinners mother was an intelligent house wife and a strong mother, and his father was a lawyer. He was a hard working student that loved school and also liked to be outside. He was always building things like roller-skate scooters, steerable wagons, sleds, and rafts to be poled about on shallow ponds. He made seesaws, merry-go-rounds, and slides. He made slingshots, bows and arrows, blow guns and water pistols from lengths of bamboo, and from a discarded water boiler a steam cannon with which he could shoot plugs of potato and carrot over the houses of our neighbors. He tried again and again to make a glider in which he might fly. He had one brother who was 2½ years younger than him and died at the age of 16 years old of cerebral aneurysm.
Burrhus went to Hamilton......

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