Moving Experiences is a collection of childhood memories and imaginations of the author, who grew up in the northwestern corner of Arkansas during the 1940s and 1950s. His parents were farm laborers who married during the Depression and struggled to raise a family of seven. The author's family moved more than a dozen times before they settled at 101 Lake Street in Bentonville, where his mother put her foot down and said they would move no more. It was there that the author learned to work and play with reckless abandon. At sixteen, the author left his family to work on his uncle's farm near...

One month after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, I arrived in China as an advisor for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. I was a watermelon breeder for Clemson University, and I was assigned to evaluate the Melon Research Institute at Gansu Agricultural University in Lanzhou, Gansu. If I considered their melon breeding program effective, FAO would provide a large grant to the University to expand their program. This single trip introduced me to the "Yellow River Honey Dew," to the professor who developed it, and to two outstanding young Chinese who are still part of my life...

While he is working as a technical advisor for a South Korean firm, Mac Arnold is kidnapped by the North Korean government and forced to work in prison camps for twenty years. Finally, he escapes from North Korea and returns to his home town of Glade Rock, Arkansas. He intends to build the new life he has dreamed of for so many years as a prisoner in North Korea, but he discovers that the life of a free man is much more unpredictable than he expected it to be. The sweetheart of his childhood has been married, divorced, and has fallen in love with a local rancher. Mac has no job prospects and...