The world is full of secrets just waiting to be found. Unfortunately, most people don't really take the time to discover them these days. With bills to pay, careers to build, and children to raise, we rarely travel far from home anymore, and when we do, it's usually more of a commercial endeavor than an adventure of any kind.

Imagine, however, that you are in a different place and time, where the world is rapidly changing around you. Young men are being drafted and sent to foreign lands to participate in an unpopular war. A new breed of free-spirited youth is protesting, challenging...

How to live a purposeful, self-discovered life growing up through the Eisenhower years in the middle of America was an ongoing question in this boy's life. His sorrows and joys, mistakes and successes in a place known as the Land of Lincoln are portrayed vividly in this book that bridges the days from the birth of the atomic bomb to the Summer of Love. Fear of nuclear war, emotional detachment, and withdrawal from religious belief intermix with a loving family, spiritual connection with nature in the outdoor life, and a budding counter-culture attachment in a thoughtful, humorous story that...