There are certain defining events that occur to people-the sort of things we use as markers in the timetables of our lives: Birth and Deaths. Marriages and Divorces. Windfalls and Calamities. For Tom Bodett, it was the day he got electrocuted. On May 27, 1975, at about seven o'clock in the morning, Tom Bodett was " exploded" in Medford, Oregon. In this collection of performance essays, the centerpiece is " Exploded"-Bodett' s recollections and reflections...

Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...

"Bodett...reads this vernacular-laden story about smart little orphan runaway Sweetness, who 'rescues' the sheriff..." - Booklist