It’s a story of life: covering seventy-eight years (1942–2020). Dirt Farmer’s Son is written for a broad audience who have witnessed these times and for those who want to know what happened. It shares stories of farm life during the ’40s and ’50s, Catholic military boarding-school seminary, his wife’s two kidney transplants, and the adoption of a Korean child. It also includes chapters on his chemical career and his bottled-water business. Each chapter can stand alone, but the story flows...