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...final tale, Simon Winchester's poignant coda to a life on the move, Coming Home in Massachusetts, celebrates tilling the soil as an act that instantly turns a place into a home. "In that moment I was utterly hooked ... Tractor smoke, fine Syrian tobacco, blue alfalfa and wild mint made a cocktail of, well, probably pheromones ... that produced for me a true olfactory epiphany. It was as though in that one instant the earth sang out: ?Dig holes here. Put down roots...
...concluded the second day more assertively, with Myers and Simon placing 52nd and 53rd, respectively. Although their finishes were lower than the previous day, their race points were much lower as well, demonstrating a marked improvement...
...rough first day, with both captain Ryan Myers and freshman Sam Simon falling in one of their runs. Simon finished 43rd and Myers 44th. But both racers lauded the quality of the course, saying it held up well throughout the competition...
...Aside from the cold, it was the best course conditions we’ve had all year,” Simon said...
John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Rankin--the U.S. produced men like that because slavery, the nation's fatal flaw, was awful enough to breed opponents of equal fury. In Beyond the River (Simon & Schuster; 333 pages), Ann Hagedorn tells Rankin's story as a window onto that era's most audacious utility, the Underground Railroad, the network of safe houses, sympathetic whites and free blacks that helped runaway slaves escape to the North. Rankin, his steadfast wife and reliable sons were among its major links--crucial enough that furious slaveholders put a bounty on the minister's head...