Literally the Best Reviews: Homegrown

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh & the Rise of Right Wing Extremism
-- Jeffrey Toobin
Simon & Schuster
426 Pages

Being a local history guy, I often find myself gravitating towards history books that have a local connection. I read the newest books on Love Canal, the biography of Medal of Honor recipient Frank Gaffney, and now the story of Timothy McVeigh. This is still, nearly thirty years after the events, a tough one for people in the area to swallow. We don’t really want to acknowledge it, nor do we want to forget it. Still, I had to read it, although I wasn’t sure I was going to review it.

My Imperfect Plot: From Garden to Table - If it Makes it That Far

A few weeks ago my garden LOOKED fantastic.  I was so excited.  The squash plants were huge, the peppers were just starting to form fruit, the tomatoes too had bulbous flowers just on the verge of resembling tomatoes, and the beans….the beans plants, were almost a foot tall with light purple buds beginning to unfurrow. It was beautiful!