For one local man, it isn’t just a figment of his imagination.

He’s lived it.

Edgar Munro, of John Deere Lane, Lock Haven, is celebrating his 100th birthday today, Feb. 8.

Edgar was born on Feb. 8, 1920 in Merchantville, N.J., before his family moved to Lock Haven where he lived along the Susquehanna River near Island Road.

PHOTO PROVIDED Edgar’s official military portrait. He served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946.

“(His dad) worked in the shipyards in New Jersey and then they came here. He was a farmer and he was a commissioner in the courthouse for about eight years,” Edgar’s daughter, Dolly, said.

Edgar’s dad, J. Fred Munro, owned a milk business — Munro Milk. He helped his Dad as a kid by delivering milk, Dolly said.

While he was still very young, Edgar also took part in building Route 150.

“I was big and husky then,” Edgar joked.

“He was still in school when he went to work on the road,” Dolly said. “Whoever was working on the road came and asked if he could stay with them because he did good work.”

PHOTO PROVIDED Edgar, front right, and his late wife Dorothy, with their six children. Middle row, from left, Dolly, Ellen and Mabel. Back row, Gary, Neal and Edgar Jr.

At 16, Edgar met his future wife, Dorothy Englert. He was at the home of a friend, Fog Fisher, when he saw Dorothy walking home from school.

Fisher’s farm was located close to Dorothy’s family farm near Sugar Lusk Road.

“Mother was walking up from school and that’s how he met her,” Dolly said.

The two married on Dec. 15, 1941 and soon after moved to Baltimore where Edgar worked at the ship yards.

“Mom got pregnant with me and they came back home and had me,” Dolly explained. “I guess they went back out for awhile but then Grandma got sick. So Mom had to come back to take care of Grandma and they were here ever since.”

PHOTO PROVIDED Edgar sits in a 1917 Model T antique car on May 5, 2002.

Edgar and Dorothy took over operation of her parents farm on John Deere Lane, where he still resides.

Soon after moving back, Edgar was drafted in the United States Army.

“He was drafted from here when I was 18 months old,” Dolly said.

Edgar served from 1944 to 1946 for two years, one month and seven days before returning home.

He returned to farm work while also working at two different car dealerships.

“He worked at Adam C. Dickey’s in Lock Haven and Rosamilia’s in Renovo,” Dolly said.

“He did body and fender work,” Edgar’s son, Gary, said.

Dickey’s was located at the corner of Vesper and Water streets. Edgar would work at Dickey’s until his retirement when he began farming full time.

“They farmed just for their own use, raising their own pigs and cows,” Dolly said. “We always had a garden and we did our own hay.”

Although Edgar can no longer take part in farming, his son Gary has continued, raising beef cows for sale.

In total Edgar and Dorothy had six children — Dolly, Edgar Jr., twins Mabel and Ellen, Gary and Neal. He has 13 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren with two on the way.

Edgar had seven siblings, one of which is still alive. His brother Alfred B. Munro resides in Jersey Shore where another Munro family farm is located.

Through the years Edgar has always had an interest in farm tractors, specifically John Deere.

“It was 1936 when they got their first tractor, a John Deere B,” Gary said.

The tractor would birth a love of the green and yellow machines.

“He lives for the Antique Machinery Association show,” Dolly said.

The show is located at the grounds next to Penns Cave in Centre Hall, where hundreds of tractor enthusiasts gather in the spring and fall to talk shop.

Being a century old hasn’t stopped Edgar from remaining involved in the show. He still drives his John Deere BNH in the show’s parade.

“He looks forward to it. He asked me here a couple of weeks ago when it would be,” Dolly said.

Gary said he helps transport the vehicle out to the grounds for his Dad to showcase in the parade.

Edgar’s love of machinery doesn’t stop with tractors, he’s also a big antique car fan.

“He loves his antique cars,” Dolly said with a smile.

Outside of the mechanical world, Edgar has multiple outdoor cats.

“He takes his walker out and they jump right up on it,” Dolly said. “He loves his cats out here.”

In his decades of life, Edgar has seen quite a lot of change. From technological innovations, to surviving incidents like the 1936 flood, he’s seen it all it seems.

His son, Gary, used his love of farming as an example of all the changes his Dad has seen over the years.

“He went from putting hay away loose, from square bales to round bales,” he said. “He saw the old steam tractors right through to the newer tractors.”

Yes, a century can seem like a long time. But for Edgar it went by in the blink of an eye.