Pub Date: February 1, 2021
ISBN Paperback: 978-0-9858692-9-8
Retail Price: $19.95
Pages: 296
Chapters: 49 plus Introduction
Photos: 87
Paperback, 6x9, B&W with color cover
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Take a journey through Boomer space and time into dimensions of history and nostalgia stretching from Oshkosh to Olustee, the River Raisin to the crypt of civilization, from prehistoric dark-zone caves to the voids of cosmic consciousness. Welcome to the world of sock monkeys, skydiving Santas, Nazi saboteurs, the Shadow, knife-fighters and bushwhackers, assassins and executioners, curmudgeons and high rollers, atomic doomsday machines and merchants of death, TV sitcoms and aerospace simulations, war games and petty feuds, minor wars and desperate battles, fantastic feats of strength and incredible endeavors. Once inside, be warned, you have entered The Zone.
Perhaps the best way to describe The Zone is to view the Table of Contents below (or PDF):
Overtime on the Frozen Tundra: Strangest NFL Game Ever
BOOM Town: Largest Gunpowder Plant in World Goes Up in Smoke
The Life and Times of Dr. Robert Hartley, PhD
To Infinity and Beyond: AEDC-Cold War Aerospace Testing Grounds
The Flying Crowbar and Other Nuclear-Powered Aircraft
Decisions, Decisions
Getting High and Staying There
State Capitol - Temple of Democracy
Nazi Saboteurs and the Fountain of Youth
Ironclad River Gunboats Battle Confederate Horse Cavalry
Watching Atomic Bomb Blasts from the Vegas Strip, Baby
Rockford: Sock Monkeys, Suicide, the Mafia, and Santa Claus
When Duke Lost the Rose Bowl...at Duke Stadium
Roadside Attraction: Space Shuttle Fuel Tank...Stranded
War Games Deadly But Saved Countless Lives
Building the Bomb: Clinton Engineer Works
Nineteen Fifty Sixty
Who’s Who? Know Your Composers, Explorers, Gangsters, Painters
Peaceful Succession of American Power
The Kings of Curmudgeon
Our Universe: Really Big and Full of Nothing
Oshkosh: The Wild Blue Yonder and the Flat Black Ice
More Civilized and Humane Methods of Executing the Condemned
The History of Rock ’n Roll
Hendrix vs. Jones: Nashville’s Vibrant R&B Scene
The Lonesome Highway
General Jackson’s Iron Balls
Welcome to the Body Farm
Having a Ball with Spheres
Men Behaving Badly —
Carmack Whacked: Martyr of Political Assassination
Murder During Wartime: Three Generals Slain With Impunity
Sevier vs. Tipton Feud: Battle of the Lost State of Franklin
The Black Patch War: Possum Hunters vs. Hillbillies
The Coal Creek War: Free Miners vs. National Guard
The Hoo Doo War: Vigilantism Turns To Vengeful Range Warfare
The War of the Regulation: Foreshadow of the Revolution
Remember the Raisin! Battle of River Raisin and Massacre
Fort Sanders: Knoxville Campaign Ends with Debacle
The Wabash: Greatest Indian Victory Over U.S. Army
Scoundrels, Bushwhackers, and Partisan Rangers
Vincennes: Historic Old Town on the Wabash
Saturn V: The Most Powerful Machine On or Off Earth
Las Vegas: Where Everything is Too Much But Never Enough
Evansville: WWII Arsenal of Democracy
Utopian Dreams: Heaven Can Wait
The Shadow Knows!
Muncie, Indiana
Sycamore Shoals: Kings Mountain and the Great Leap Westward
The Gridiron General
The Great Humanitarian Blamed for the Great Depression
Olustee: The Sunshine State’s Civil War Battlefield
The Deep Zone and Other Regions of the Underworld
The ’60s a-Go-Go! A Concise History
H.R. Gross: The Congressman Who Didn’t Want to Spend Money
Where Are They Now? Historic Ships, Aircraft & Spacecraft
Four Top Ten Boomer Rankings
