Read Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace – A Poignant Memoir of Wisdom and Spirit in Rural Wisconsin

Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace – A Poignant Memoir of Wisdom and Spirit in Rural Wisconsin

Michael Perry

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Description:What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit—often with his young daughters in tow—author Michael Perry is about to find out.Toiling in a shop Perry describes as "an antique store stocked by Rube Goldberg, curated by Hunter Thompson, and rearranged by a small earthquake," Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, and—now and then—batches of potentially "extralegal" explosives. As he approaches his sixtieth wedding anniversary with his wife, Arlene, Tom, famous for driving a team of oxen in local parades, has an endless reservoir of stories dating back to days of his prize Model A, and an anti-authoritarian streak refreshed daily by the four-lane interstate that was shoved through his front yard in 1965 and now dumps over 8 million vehicles past his kitchen window every year. And yet Visiting Tom is dominated by the elderly man's equanimity and ultimately—when he and Perry converse over the kitchen table as husbands and as the fathers of daughters—unvarnished tenderness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace – A Poignant Memoir of Wisdom and Spirit in Rural Wisconsin. To get started finding Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace – A Poignant Memoir of Wisdom and Spirit in Rural Wisconsin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit—often with his young daughters in tow—author Michael Perry is about to find out.Toiling in a shop Perry describes as "an antique store stocked by Rube Goldberg, curated by Hunter Thompson, and rearranged by a small earthquake," Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, and—now and then—batches of potentially "extralegal" explosives. As he approaches his sixtieth wedding anniversary with his wife, Arlene, Tom, famous for driving a team of oxen in local parades, has an endless reservoir of stories dating back to days of his prize Model A, and an anti-authoritarian streak refreshed daily by the four-lane interstate that was shoved through his front yard in 1965 and now dumps over 8 million vehicles past his kitchen window every year. And yet Visiting Tom is dominated by the elderly man's equanimity and ultimately—when he and Perry converse over the kitchen table as husbands and as the fathers of daughters—unvarnished tenderness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace – A Poignant Memoir of Wisdom and Spirit in Rural Wisconsin. To get started finding Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace – A Poignant Memoir of Wisdom and Spirit in Rural Wisconsin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace – A Poignant Memoir of Wisdom and Spirit in Rural Wisconsin

Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace – A Poignant Memoir of Wisdom and Spirit in Rural Wisconsin

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