Right before 9/11 in rural southwest Michigan, Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm’s dreams of a peaceful utopia were shot dead by sniper bullets. Owners and operators of Rainbow Farm, a campground and festival venue that became the center of marijuana activism in their region, and also the center of attention for one county prosecutor on a crusade to stop them.
LA resident, author and deputy editor of the LA City Beat, Dean Kuipers grew up just 20 miles from Rainbow Farm and knew the people in that area. From the moment Dean read about the shootings in the Kalamazoo Gazette, (the local Michigan paper he continued to have delivered to LA) he had a feeling that something was just not right.
Kuipers spent the next four years investigating researching and talking to all sides involved. The result: “Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke.” In this well written book, Kuipers offers a detailed account of events leading up to the siege, and a look into the lives of the men who died there.
This book is a must read for Libertarians, anti drug war activists, conspiracy theorists, or anyone concerned with peace and social justice in America. A well written true story of two men with a dream and the lengths our government went to stop them.
Released this summer by Bloomsbury USA. |
