Part 1: The accidental agriculturalist --
Of poetry and planting: farmers in springtime --
The farm that love built: Helen and Paul Lute --
I'd know that face anywhere: Cliff and Shelly Keepers --
I've always been lucky: the ballad of Herman Tronrud --
My apologies, Mr. President: wherein our hero fails to outsmart Jerry Ford --
The world by the tail with a downhill pull: Katie and Erhardt Schultz --
Try not to be boring: Emma Washa --
Love is still love, even when it's frozen: Edna Koenig --
Beautiful ballerinas, heavenly holsteins: the life and loves of Schomer Lichtner --
Larger than life, suddenly small: Eric Lloyd Wright --
Part 3: The dark side of paradise Tragedy without reason: the eerie calm of John Norton --
The pain of never knowing: Mary Wegner --
Living with the "enemy": Bill Fero --
The truth will out: the short, unhappy life of Emmanuel Dannan --
The banality of evil: Jerry Boyle and the defense of Jeffrey Dahmer --
Part 4: Not quite plumb --
"I'm so happy it's just terrible!": Woodrow Wilson Roberts --
The frogman cometh: Art Gering and the astounding amphibian invasion --
Big brats, tiny trophies: Dennis Leffin and the wondrous white sausage --
Dignity in motion: Jim Herther and the world's greatest car wash --
Nearly naked, seeking snow: In Wisconsin, that's amore --
Farewell, my doboy: kissing Alex P. Dobish good-bye --
Part 5: Animals? Yes!!! People? Not so much --
The elephant in the room --
Oh, deer: the Anna Mae Bauer story --
Part 6: Your lucky day --
Poems from the edge: Ellen Kort --
Short in stature, long on courage: Joe Bee Xiong --
Making beautiful music: Steve O'Donnell --
A naturalist's journey: Ken Lange --
Running for help: Sue Birschbach and Barb Klinner --
You can't tattoo a soap bubble: Evelyn Ann Fefer --
The road to temptation: Ed Thompson --
A million miles to go: Don and Cathryn Tredinnick.