Homegrown: Land of the Evergreens—Book I

By Johnny Sundstrom ’66.  Homegrown is the first volume of the “Land of the Evergreens” trilogy, which aims to provide a cultural memoir of the 1980s, that transitional decade midway between the 1960s and the new 2000 millennium. Portrayed in these books are the marijuana subculture, cocaine for arms exchanges with Central America, horse racing scandals and old growth timber battles. All of this and more, inescapably permeated by the deep emotional after-effects of one generation’s experience of the lost imperialist war in SE Asia.