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 finds out.
Toiling in his shop, Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts
for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, and--now and
then--batches of potentially "extralegal" explosives. Tom, who is
approaching his sixtieth wedding anniversary with his wife, Arlene,
and is famous for driving a team of oxen in local parades, has
stories dating back to the days of his prize Model A and an
antiauthoritarian streak refreshed daily by the interstate that was
shoved through his front yard in 1965 and now dumps more than eight
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 as husbands and the fathers
of daughters--unvarnished tenderness.
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