Just off I-94

Akin to the experiences of earlier fictional travelers Caufield and Moriarty, national award winning educator John Chapman takes you on a series of factual, humorous and insightful road trips over the last 50 years in this autobiographical anthology of illustrated ballads and backstories. A son of Scottish immigrants, the author a product of a middle class white bread first generation college experience, armed with a passion for social change and justice pursues meaning seeking...
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Akin to the experiences of earlier fictional travelers Caufield and Moriarty, national award winning educator John Chapman takes you on a series of factual, humorous and insightful road trips over the last 50 years in this autobiographical anthology of illustrated ballads and backstories. A son of Scottish immigrants, the author a product of a middle class white bread first generation college experience, armed with a passion for social change and justice pursues meaning seeking adventures in ghetto schools and into the grinding poverty of reservation life during a turbulent time of war and protest. You'll travel along side the author, up and down the interstate, looking for meaning and maturity while endeavoring to make a positive change in the world and trying to become, ? a man for others.' Stops along the way include locations as varied as Detroit, Kalamazoo,Michigan, Scotland, Lost Island and Lame Deer, Montana. With the help of 10 local artists, the author recounts life lessons with images pleasing to the ear and the eye and thoughts boggling to the mind. Themes include, education and careers, recession, war and violence, friendship and bromance, the pursuit of a cancer treatment, yoga, dance moves and spiritual growth. Proceeds from this iBook go towards the Littlebear-Foote scholarships for Northern Cheyenne students at Dull Knife Memorial College.