Growing up 'horse-and-buggy" Amish in America in the sixties was a lesson in clashing realities. The Vietnam War dogged our edges. The moon landings and the social revolution permeated even our harmonious perimeter in the most subtle ways. This collection chronicles these opposing extremes, from the plantings and harvests of childhood to the turning away as a cinical adult. From the sun drenched hay fields; through drug addiction, to the sun drenched suburbs of Los Angeles where I found my wife who righted my turbulent ship and set sail to this tenuous plateu of an all-American, middle class...

Growing up 'horse-and-buggy" Amish in America in the sixties was a lesson in clashing realities. The Vietnam War dogged our edges. The moon landings and the social revolution permeated even our harmonious perimeter in the most subtle ways. This collection chronicles these opposing extremes, from the plantings and harvests of childhood to the turning away as a cynical adult. From the sun drenched hay fields; through drug addiction, to the sun drenched suburbs of Los Angeles where I found my wife who righted my turbulent ship and set sail to this tenuous plateu of an all-American, middle class...