400 RATHBUN RD. aka THE N.O. RATHBUN FARM now called ONTARA... 1600’s to the Present
…chocolate croissants… Antique map… The Berkshire mountains… the 72 acre colonial farm… the hidden oven… Lonnie & Diana… Native American, Mohican Tribe… The Groton land grant… Hancock settlers petition the Court of Assembly… Nathaniel Washington Whitman… E.B. Estes & Son wood turning mill… The LeBarron clan… Thoreau… Swami Vivekananda… Sadhguru… Camus… Bill Bryson… Cecil B. DeMille… “I'm gonna get it again…Yo! Abbot!!!” …Walking Liberty half dollar… Jesse Maynard and shoeless friend… Citroen Deux Chevaux… The Baths of Caracalla… Delphi… Niagara Falls… ONTARA… Super Bowl… banana cake… beloved sister, Junie…
Back with his second non-fiction novel after a 20 year hiatus (hernia), it’s time to “take a load off, Fanny!” Sit back with a chai tea and some danish out on the deck, as Paul “Bunion,” now known locally as “the Hippy on the Hill,” serves up a smorgasbord of history, families, travelogue, and life/yoga philosophy as he realizes he is on the back nine holes. A good golf friend once diagnosed his swing and said he had a “LOFT” problem – Lack Of Friggin’ Talent.
Yet when it comes to the written word, another friend/artist offered, “That was beautifully written… I can’t wait to see where else you take this book.” He thanks you, dear reader, for joining him on his journey home... Namaste (with a pinch of oy vey!)
