May 25, 2017
Other Worlds, Fond Memories, and Lessons
By LeRoy Lawson The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum Grand Haven: Brilliance Audio, 2016 The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World Edward Dolnick New York: HarperTorch, 2011 The Shepherd”s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape James Rebanks New York: Flatiron Books, 2015 OK, go ahead and laugh. Here I am, a great-grandfather, hanging on to every word of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, without a child nearby to provide cover for me. Maybe there”s truth in this “second childhood” charge after all. Or, the hypothesis I prefer, maybe there”s something special about the story.






