"It may be something entirely apart from anything I have ever attempted before--the chances are good, in fact, that it
will be--and once more I'll be off and running on the research trail as I attempt to track down all the information I can find or experience about it."
Although he was born in Buffalo, New York, Eckert spent the majority of his childhood in the Chicago area. His family was poor, but even though he lived in the slums Eckert did not feel deprived; he had known no other way of life. "I was a child with an intense love of nature, which is rather strange, since the Chicago slums was hardly a place for developing an interest in wildlife," he explains in SAAS. "Yet, I remember crawling about in the gangways between buildings or in vacant lots, overturning boards and pieces of tin and other debris and studying the creatures I found beneath-- mice, worms, spiders, centipedes, etc."
Things only got worse for Eckert and his family when his father died shortly after his sixth birthday. "My mother had a difficult time providing for my brother and me, but even though we did not have much more than the bare necessities for survival, she instilled us with good manners and morals and gave us plenty of love and care," he remembers in SAAS.
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