What price, in the name of progress, do we pay for our hubris in the manipulation of nature?

As a local host of WVPE's All Things Considered, Sid Shroyer is no stranger to local events that tell a larger story. In this powerful historical memoir, Shroyer explores a story in his own family's archive: the destruction of his father's boyhood home in small town, Somerset, Indiana.

What begins as a letter to his grandson about his father becomes investigative reporting and research into government records that reveal a dark secret. The forced flooding of his father's home was a result of biased social policies and personal ambition.

In this powerful exposé, discover how a flood-control reservoir was sold off the books, twisted in the name of community recreation and economic development, left those most affected without a voice... and ended in disaster.

Shroyer's story is one of the past and the present, both a deeply personal account for his grandson, and a searing commentary of what the powerful can do to the powerless -- and why environmental activism in rural communities continues to be as important now as ever.

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