Dinosaurs in the Cornfield: Lessons Unearthed on My Grandfather's Farm

Grandpa says it best. He always does:

"Knowin' where you came from makes you part of somethin' larger'n yerself--and from yer beginnin', you were meant t' be larger'n yerself."

For young Billy, summer means saying goodbye to city life and traveling seven hundred miles to visit his grandparents on their Tennessee farm. It means long, humid days of snapping beans, milking cows, hunting for fossils in rocky fields, and trips into town for ice-cream sodas and comic books at the five-and-dime. It...