Let There Be Light: Five Stories

The stories in Let there be Light are: Bird of Providence; Derelicts of Grand Coulee; Good Friday and the Pennsylvania Turnpike; Family Eco-Trek in Maasailand; and Ambush of the "Moon Platoon" A Resolution? These stories convey opportunites lost and gained by many colorful and engaging people in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Washington, Kenya, and Vietnam between 1966 and 2013. They carry us through one day of encounters with wildlife, life-threatening events, social tensions and conflicts, and emotional highs and lows in the lives of diverse characters including teenage arsonists, State troopers, dirt farmers, longhaul truckers, former big game hunters, Ndorobo and Maasai tribesmen, three members of the McSeer family, and Viet Cong, North Vietnamese, and U.S. Army soldiers during a devastating ambush near Chu Lai, Vietnam, July, 1969, during the lunar landing. Each story includes original photographs and artwork to help readers visualize the times, places, and people depicted.

Author: T. P. Schwartz-Barcott

Publisher: Mill City Press, Inc

Publication Date: Jul 29, 2014

Number of Pages: 232 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1626529094

ISBN-13: 9781626529090