Milton L. Snyder, Ph.D., of Mount Vernon, Wash., who has ties to West Virginia, has self-published his memoir, "Maybe Milton Should Work in the Woods."

The memoir chronicles his early life on the farm and how education changed the course of his life.

Snyder's grandparents were John Wesley Snyder, Mary Elizabeth Cooper, Walter Icen Pritchard and Jesse Lee Jordan, who were all born in West Virginia.

Cooper and John Snyder lived in Harman. Three of his grandparents moved to Idaho in the 1890s and early 1900s while Pritchard remained in the Buckhannon and Weston areas much of his life.

Following the death of his father, Milton Cooper Snyder, Milton L. Snyder moved to Lewiston, Idaho, and graduated from Lewiston High School in 1947 and received a bachelor of arts in 1951 from Lewis Clark State College, known then as Northern Idaho College of Education.

Service in the Korean?war from 1951 to 1952 interrupted Snyder's educational plans. Following the war, however, he earned a master's degree from the University of Washington and his doctorate from the U.S. International University, now known as Alliant International University in San?Diego,?Calif., in 1973.

Snyder has had a long career in education, serving as teacher, principal and superintendent of schools in Washington, deputy superintendent in California and division superintendent in Virginia. He also served as deputy executive director for the American Association of School Administrators in Arlington, Va. During his work in Virginia as superintendent, he taught graduate courses in educational administration as adjunct professor for the University of Virginia and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He continues to work for several educational technology firms from his home office in Mount Vernon.

Those interested in purchasing "Maybe Milton Should Work in the Woods" may contact the author's son, Craig Cooper Snyder, by e-mailing MiltSnyderBook@gmail.com.