ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Giant gratitude to my wife, Maxine, and son, Charles, for their continued love and support, without which this book would have been impossible. Giant bro’ love to Doug Grant, Ben Edmonds, Tom McGowan, Jay Kriss, Derek Crockett, Bruce Marshall, and Ehud Sperling, president of Inner Traditions, for their friendship and inspiration along life’s often perilous and bizarre journey. Giant respect to all the wonderful people at Inner Traditions who made this book possible: Jon Graham, for his great eye and greater mind; Mindy Branstetter, for her admirable patience and meticulous editing; Jeanie Levitan, for her wise guidance; Nancy Yeilding, for shaping the manuscript into its final form; and Cyndi Marcotte, for keeping it all together. And finally, giant thanks to the Quarry Hill community for providing me with shelter from the storm.

 

 

 

The eyes of that species of extinct Giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1848