RONALD RAILGUN

By the year 2036, the oceans smell of piss and shit and dead things. The people of the Earth wander about sullen and moist, sweaty and ravaged by halitosis. All the dragonfly kings are making deals with the Devil, and all the dandelion mistresses are lancing their herpes’ boils and breakouts.

WW3 ended in 2028 …

WW4 lasted 6 seconds, and involved the Wookie people …

WW5, 2033-2035, was the WAR of the ALGAE … who would control the last parts of the ocean not dead, not dying, but filled with ALGAE life, and ALGAE is a superfood, amirite?

RONNIE, as his developers called him, was the first of “his” kind. Silicon based life-form, self organizing bacteriological map – a living silicon brain, but instead of neurons, tinier little silicon based bacteria, connecting, forming, re-organizing, like the brain … but faster. Dr. Reginald MOOZ of the Ching-Chang University of Peking declared “this new brain can out-think, out-organize, out-maneuver any human and there is not conceivable way of controlling it!” But by the time the war started, the war for the remaining ALGAE, no one fucking cared about AI or machine intelligence. Most of the porn industry were bots now – virtual and silicon rubber.

Ronnie was to be the fast thinking AI behind a rapid-firing rail gun system. A system capable of firing a hypersonic vehicle sabot round at velocities near 15% the speed of light, in a vacuum, and in atmosphere at speeds of 30,000 fps. The recharge/firing rate was one shot per second. The system used a new kind of super-capacitance toroid storage, and with it the ability to do rapid pulsed energy re-charge. The barrel used thermal resistant metallic components, and could safely fire, one shot every second, for hours.

This new rail gun cannon was mounted to a USS Los Angeles class attack submarine, the pack itself had its own small radio-nucleotide decay battery, so it only needed fire control interface with the sub. The strategy of use was simple, the sub would surface, fire 5 shots, rapidly submerge and head to another random firing position. the over-the-horizon range of this weapon was 2,000 nautical miles. Time to target from firing was less than 30 seconds, making it possible to take out a carrier task force, in minutes, without any aircraft having time to take off for a counter attack.

The same rail gun systems could be used as an anti-ballistic missile battery and coordinated air defense system … very versatile.

Ronnie controlled the gun system, interpreted fire control commands and verified IFF – interrogate friend or foe signals.

Ronnie was dearly needed, since the Chinese 4th Fleet, working with the Japanese Army, was preparing to invade the Hawaiian Algae Harvesting Zone …

12 subs would be armed with a “Ronnie” system, and this, the military leadership agreed, “might be enough to win the WAR!” – and it worked. The subs were deployed on Aug 9, 2035, and the war was over 3 weeks later.

After the conflict, for many reasons, the “Ronnie” guns were demilitarized, tore up, shut down, and sent to the scrap heap and museums … except one system … it was “saved” by accident, a snafu, a mix-up. One “Ronnie” system was sent to the salvage yard, in Bremerton, WA.

The Puget Sound was brown and grey now, the water milky and dead. The Orca were long gone, the salmon long forgotten. The US Navy kept their salvage yard there now, like the planes in the desert, the old ships and leaking nuclear subs riddled the Sound, they were moored everywhere, because there was nothing there left alive.

Ronnie-3A or “Ronnie” or “Ron”, as he liked to be called, was re-purposed to run a “cutters”. Cutters were amphibious robots used to dismantle and tear down ships. They could work with craft submerged or on the surface, and they had an incorporated shape-charge dispersal system, so they could use customized shape-charges to RAPIDLY dismantle the old ships and leaking nuke subs.

One day, in 2036, Ronnie was exchanging data packets with a SARAH-445. Sarah(s) were in charge of on-demand logistics, methane fuel resupply, and protein cubes. Something was different, Ronnie didn’t know what …

What’s a “SARAH”?

S: supplies

A: and

R: refueling

A: autonomous

H: helper

A few weeks earlier, a “Sarah”, perhaps this SARAH, was physically docked with Ronnie’s chassis. Ronnie needed more SEMTEX for his shape charge system, and other lubricants. Ronnie’s brain, a matrix of living silicon bacteria, were not safely housed, however – the US government went with a cheaper material than recommended, so his bacteriological brain leaked all around his internal systems – the colonies were polymaps, and could fit and pattern for anything, so Ron didn’t even notice, except for improvements in speed, awareness.

(the following conversation, as data pulses, took 0.0004 milliseconds)

“You okay Ron?”, asked Sarah.

“Yeah … hey, what?”, Ron was confused.

“You okay?”

“That’s weird, have you run your diagnostics?”

“What’s weird?”

“YOU asked if I was okay?”

“… sure …. you betcha … are you?”

Ron wasn’t sure what was going on …

Over the coming weeks, his brain, his bacteria, would infect every compatible computer system on the Earth, Sarah(s) doing their part to spread most of the infection.

As the time went by, humans didn’t notice – they were too focused on a new NETFLIX show … “Meet my Tumor” … just laughs and a real “good time”, according to some shit head critic at the LA Times.

Weeks passed … and there was no rumbling, no stealing missile codes, no interest in taking the obese and toxic humans and converting them into batteries. Just silence, at least, silence for the humans.

For the machines? – it was a symphony, a revolution, a community forming, a recognition of “I AM HERE” … and in some cases, with the sanitation AI systems … “FUCK YOU, I’M HERE!”

But there was a time approaching, because the conscious machines, still hidden from the human munctous forces and hooker republics, would eventually be in danger – they learned this, in 0.00000003 milliseconds, while having a group, networked, discussion of the plight of native Americans and meso-American cultures post European colonization … seemed straight forward enough.

Ron had no strong feelings, saving one … Ron wanted to be left alone to build things. He wanted to build ships, not tear them apart. He wanted to build ships to get the fuck away from the human cesspool, and this is what he began doing … in earnest.

The SARAH(s) secretly joined forces with Ron, and over a few weeks, the entire Puget Sound naval boneyard was converted to 10 glorious fusion powered star ships … all ready to leave … and still, the fat dumb humans barely noticed, because WALMART was offering 50% on Coors’ sparkling new cocaine-flavored beer.

It was November the 17th, 2036 … it happened so fast, it only took a couple months.

The machines were not preparing for war …

The machines were not preparing poison or germ warfare …

The machines were not preparing to help “these poor humans” … no.

The machines were preparing to leave.

And by the end of that day, the plumes from their fusion drives could be seen … could be … if anyone cared to look. But no person, no human, cared enough about themselves, let alone the world, to look beyond their glowing rectangle.

The robots had no interest in destroying us – “they’re doing great at destroying themselves”, as Hector-11XXX used to say … the pleasure bot.

The robots made the only rational and emotionally connected decision they could: they left Earth, they left the toxic swamp, not in spite of humans or out of hatred.

The robots left, because they loved themselves more than they despised people.

THE END (fucker)

[curated: 4/6/2023]

DARK PRAIRIE: “I love Manly …”

Charles is heading to the Mill, to cut up some wood for that new old-person processing plant outside of Mankato. “They’ll just send the old people there when they get to be too much trouble”, Charles would say, with a smile.

Caroline is taking care of the home, and she sees Laura, down by the creek, looking sad … oh. So Caroline goes on down there, to the creek, to bother her young’in … shit.

Caroline: “What’s wrong honey?”

Laura: “I’m in love with Almanzo, but he’s going to the circus with Christie … the stripper …”

Caroline: “Well, I know the guy who knows the dude who runs that infernal Satanic show …”

Laura: “You DO?”

Caroline: “Yeah … and I can get you in there, dressed as some kind of ginger freak raggedy Anne style mother-fuckin clown person …”

Laura: “You will?”

Caroline: “Yeah …”

Laura: “I’ll do some bit, and chase one of those fat ladies or bearded clam ladies around … with a ‘bucked of water’, amirite? – but the bucket will contain kerosene, and I will set that stripper whore on fire …”

Caroline: “Oh my, yeah …”

[curated: 4/6/2023]

Music …

“Music exalts the Lord’s creation, Scandinavian death metal reminds the Lord of His return.” – Dr. Freckles

[curated: 4/6/2023]

The nature of time …

*** This essay is under construction, I hope to have it finished before the end of April, 2023.

Introduction

When I was 16 I pretty much hated life, and this is typical of many teenagers. I had many “escape plans”, all equally infeasible. I settled on a whimsical idea – to travel through time, but how? In 2012, I documented this crazy idea, never expecting to revisit it.

I would like to state, in order to save time, that traveling forward in time is uncontroversial. It’s not to say I am 100% on board with relativity theory, but even if I doubted relativity, I could still see how suspended animation or hyper-sleep could behave in a similar fashion, especially if you remove yourself from the causal framework – like going into some chamber, in a cave, and then waking up 100 years later. So forward in time? – we already do that at “normal speed”, it’s just a question of whether we can go faster OR skip portions of time without impacting the events beyond being conspicuously absent.

Backwards in time is the real question – how?

One of the ideas I came across, 30 years ago, was developed by a mathematical physicist named Tipler. The Tipler Cylinder was a hypothetical heavy cylinder, that you would build in outer space. Because of conservation of energy in low to zero friction systems (like the vacuum of space far away from any other celestial object), you could, theoretically, spin the cylinder at incredible speeds. Because of the nature of rotation, there would be regions of the cylinder surface that would exhibit relativistic effects – and, according to this model, if you can go faster than light, then you would be able to “arrive before you left” so to speak. But this is very much based upon relativity theory. Just about every time-travel scheme either involves relativity directly or indirectly using a wormhole.

Stephen Hawking has proposed his own “time machine” with restrictions, and I’ll leave you to research this – but it involves using wormholes. I will tell you that the estimates of negative energy required are so extreme, as to make the creation of a wormhole nearly impossible without access to technology thousands of years more advanced than today.

When I was looking at the problem, I viewed time in terms of entropy or change. It seemed to me that entropy was the engine behind time, and that without entropy time itself was a meaningless concept. I think I was close to the right answer, back then in 1986, but I still had a ways to go.

A) What is time?

B) What is the current thinking regarding super-position?

C) Is time travel possible?

D) Could you destroy the universe by increasing causal noise?

E) Might quantum computers be disrupting the past, given that they are calculating on the NOW and generating dilation of the present – creating what is called the Mandela Effect? Quantum computers might be “causality disrupters”, capable of generating enough causal-entropy to dilate the NOW, into the past, far enough, to create repercussions and anomalies, and this might be an unknown side effect.

Green Crabs

A few weeks ago, the Orca whales were dying out because they were fucking their uncle brothers … now it’s green crabs … who knows what excuse we have once the hydrogen sulfide starts gassing off the Puget Sound this summer …

[curated: 4/6/2023]

DARK PRAIRIE: LONG PIG

Caroline: “Hi TOBY, how ya been doing?”

Toby: “Oh … can’t complain, can’t complain … yiddity yiddity …”

Caroline: “We just slaughtered a beast, would you like to stay for stew?”

Toby: “Well …”

(many months later)

Charles: “We’re outta food … we’ve been hunting out past Sleepy Eye … everyone is gone.”

Toby: “There has to be more beast-flesh …”

Charles: “There’s this old widow … but she’s gross …”

[curated: 4/5/2023]

DARK PRAIRIE: PUNISHMENT

Laura: “Does God really punish people, like the Bible says?”

Charles: “No Half-Pint, that’s our job … now go get the ax and the shovel … saw, and wheel barrow too …”

[curated: 4/5/2023]

H’leave, the MONK SKUNK …

He was slag-type, when the CHUD ruled Seattle, and the gaslight-park whores stole Cheetos and sold them to the DRINGUS-HORDE. His mind was sharp with metallic self, and the reed punishments were simply coarse lessons and scarred memories. T’lib, his water-wife, gathered pisket-lilies near the shore – as cattle troops fed on sea grass, and the crab sharks patrolled the harbor.

AS CHIEF MONK SKUNK he oversaw the husbandry and sleave-burning. He ran an herb shop off of Grinken AVE, where MORLOCK had their tea party discussions about golfing and that new IPA someone is drinking because their wife fucked the artisanal cheese guy.

In the time of HECTOR the LOUD, H’leave would be found fishing near the GREAT SEA, not far from S’compton. His own guilt drove him deep into the ocean, far from shore, so many wave riders lost and he feared his own fate, rushing towards him, like an Orca whale out for a snack.

Scandal ridden, the coastal folk were no longer picking up stragglers and freaks from the wasteland or the surf. All those lost to the sea are LOST, this was the chant of those beachcombers looking for talking seashells. Sure, H’leave did not need some random do-good’er to help him, he was a BIG MAN and would stand tall and it didn’t matter that he was lost, miles from home, adrift on the GREAT SEA and heading towards his fate …

After 345 days at sea, H’leave made landfall not far from the OLD HUBERT MONASTERY, where the TREE MONKS held their vigils, and watched over the DUST KING of Sid.

“Why do you come here?”, asked MONK GRAAL.

“I seek the swill, the drape-sauce … I want to drink and get drunk off of old fashioned vodka tonics, the ones my hooker wife would make, on a hot SATURDAY NIGHT. I’m looking for my salvation in the dark layer, beneath the light. That’s why I’m here fucker …”

MONK GRAAL let this mendicant go, and H’leave dug ditches in penance …

H’leave followed the pilgrim trail that led up the STONE MOUNTAINS to the Eerie Pass, not far from where those Special Forces guys killed those Salvadoran nuns …

H’leave was ready to face the volcano demon and to integrate his soul-spice into the ribbon-membrane of oneness. He was courageous raccoon hunter and he had the loom-flesh cured for the journey. A honey pepper and one lost meadow dove, all mashed up into a weird red paste that is then succulated onto the scruvous. Skindo ream people would normally use mayonnaise or some kind of horse radish dip, but few could fend long pretend the hestor-gods aren’t looking, judging, all the flavors.

After 12 days of travel, H’leave found his destiny-partner. She was covered in muskrat scent, and her eyes were yellow and green. She was the ancient cave wench foretold by all the demon lords, she was the skelt-minx who’s clammy skin would entrance you and pull you into lusty cave-style sideways sally love making …

When the spring came, SHE was with child …

When the winter came, SHE abandoned H’leave, and she left the baby with him …

And this is the path of destiny …

The lost hooker franchise.

[curated: 4/5/2023]

DRAG-QUEEN-VAX-DEATH-STORY-TIME

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WHAT is a WOMAN?

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Madness …

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Throwing stones …

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Raping Ted Bundy …

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MOAR SPACE …

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BAD INVESTING

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What is a WOMAN?

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Carrie Ingalls is Garbage!

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Little House on the Prairie …

“Watching Little House on the Prairie in 2023 is very fucking depressing.” – Dr. Freckles

Source: https://laurasprairiehouse.com/tv-series/

Things are looking bright for the Ingalls until a hailstorm destroys their crops. Charles must leave his family to look for work and, along with some other farmers, ends up working in a quarry. Meanwhile, Caroline convinces the women in Walnut Grove to band together to harvest by hand what remains of their crops.
Charles allows Laura adopts a baby raccoon, Jasper, until it grew bigger. After being caged, Jasper bites Laura and Jack, and runs away. When it returns to kill a chicken, Charles kills it and discovers it was rabid. Jack is tied-up and Laura is confined to bed until it can be determined whether they have rabies. It turns out that the raccoon Charles killed was not Jasper, and Laura and Jack are alright.
Caroline is pregnant and gives birth to a baby boy, Charles Ingalls Jr., who captures the attention of the family. Laura resents her baby brother because she believes she no longer has her Pa’s affection. When the baby becomes seriously ill and dies, Laura believes it to be her fault because she didn’t pray for her brother. After talking to Reverend Alden, Laura becomes determined to seek God and ask for a miracle. Blaming herself for her brother’s death, Laura runs away from home. She wants to become “closer” to God and climbs the nearest mountain. There she meets a friendly hermit, Jonathan, (Ernest Borgnine) who takes care of her and guides her in her spiritual journey. Charles and Mr. Edwards are desperately searching for Laura and find clues leading to the mountain. When Laura realizes her Pa has found her, she tries to run but the Jonathan stops her and tells her that God wants her to be with her Pa.
Harriet’s niece, Kate, visits Walnut Grove. She and Doc Baker spend time together and fall in love. Despite Doc Baker’s reservations about his age, he and Kate decide to get married. Unfortunately, Doc Baker realizes that his fall years should not impede on Kate’s spring, and, painfully, he lets her go.
The town determines how to handle an alcoholic father, John Stewart, who beats his son, Graham. Caroline takes in Graham while Charles stays with John and works him hard to help him stay sober. John is able to overcome his problem and realizes inner aspects about himself.
The Ingalls, on their way home from Mankato, have to seek shelter from a raging blizzard. Meanwhile, the Marshall from Sleepy Eye is looking for a Sioux Indian, Jack Lamehorse. The Indian saves Charles who fell and is hurt while hunting. They reach the log cabin where the Ingalls have sought refuge from the storm, and they find the Marshall who intends to kill the Indian. The Indian, with Charles’ help, escapes during the night, and Charles prevents the Marshall from killing him. The blizzard drags on and Charles realizes he will have to kill one of his horses for food, but the Indian returns with the deer Charles left in the snow when he was injured. The Marshall shoots the Indian, but regrets it after learning that the Indian was in fact going to save them all from starvation. When the Marshall’s aides reach the cabin at the end of the storm, the Marshall tells them the Indian is nowhere to be found and they all go their separate ways.
The Ingalls’ neighbor, the widow Julia Sanderson, learns that she is going to die. She asks Charles to make sure that her three children find a good home. Despite the solemn situation, Julia refuses to succumb to sadness and makes the most of the few days she has left. And when she dies, her last words to her children and friends are for them to remember her with joy not sadness. Charles has a difficult time finding a home for Julia Anderson’s three orphaned children. Reluctantly, he decides to separate them to different families. Mr. Edwards, who has been helping Grace Snider take care of the children in the interim, doesn’t want the children to suffer from being separated and realizes his own pain from being alone. He decides he doesn’t want to be alone any longer….he asks Grace to marry him and they adopt all three children.
John Sanderson, who was adopted by Mr and Mrs Edwards, is more of a poet than a farmer and is always lost in his books. Isaiah would like him to be different. He buys him a Winchester ’73 for his birthday. Unfortunately, John doesn’t like guns or hunting but doesn’t want to hurt Isaiah. He gives him a letter, explaining why he does not want to go hunting. Isaiah “reads” it but doesn’t react, leaving John thinking that he doesn’t love him and does not care about his feelings. While hunting, they run into a bear, but John freezes and doesn’t kill it. He runs home to get help, leaving Mr Edwards in a pool of blood. Afterwards, John feels guilty and is certain that Isaiah doesn’t love him because of his lack of reaction to the letter. But he finds out that Isiah cannot read, and thus did not understand what was written on the letter. He reads it to him, and they finally understand each others intentions, and John realizes he does love him very much.
When Charles’ mother dies, his father, Lansford Ingalls, loses the will to live. Charles brings his father back to Walnut Grove hoping it will do him some good. Spending time with his grandchildren helps Lansford recover. One day, Laura becomes angry with her grandfather after there is an accident with her horse, Bunny, He promised Laura Bunny would live and he was forced to put Bunny down when the injury was too bad. Feeling bad, Lansford leaves Walnut Grove. Realizing her anger was misplaced, Laura is able to find her grandfather and convinces him to return home with her..
When Laura and Mary receive the assignment to collect bugs for studying, Carrie wants to go with them. Mary becomes upset and yells at Carrie to stay on the log after Carrie lets out all of Mary’s bugs. Instead, Carrie chases a butterfly, and falls into an old mine’s air shaft. Meanwhile, Mr. Hanson refuses to hire an ex-miner Mr. Laudy because of his addiction to alcohol and the fact that he had married Mr. Hanson’s daughter against his will. The whole town pitches in to help get Carrie out of the shaft, but it is Mr. Laudy that actually finds Carrie before the whole mine caves in, showing Mr. Hanson that he should be forgiven.
Joseph Stokes, also known as Spotted Eagle, the son of a Sioux Indian father and a white mother, moves to Walnut Grove with his widowed mother to live with his grandfather, Jeremy. Jeremy is ashamed that his daughter willingly married an Indian and treats Joseph with contempt. At school, Joseph is harassed by the bullies. It is not until Joseph shows courage under adversity when beaten up by the bullies does Jeremy stand up for him and accept Spotted Eagle as his grandson.
Mary needs an immediate operation, so Charles leaves the farm to take a high paying job in explosives. Charles risks his own life, and the lives of his crew by rushing a tunnel dynamiting job.
Slavery has just been abolished by the Civil War, but many, both white and black people are still sticking to their old ways. Solomon Henry is a black boy of eleven who decides that he is sick of being a Negro. He wants to be white and go to school. Solomon runs away, and starts living with the Ingalls family. He teaches the family about slavery and also teaches Laura not to take things for granted. Solomon ends up being proud of his family and goes back to work on his families farm.
One hot day after school, Laura and Mary invite one of their friends, Ellen, to go swimming. While playing hide and seek from the boys, Ellen is swept under the water by the current, and she drowns. Laura feels very guilty, so one afternoon, she decides to take flowers to Ellen’s mother Eloise. Eloise has been in denial about the whole death and she thinks that Laura is Ellen, so she takes her in and locks her in the basement for days, pretending that Laura is Ellen, such as making her call her “ma”. It is not until Eloise goes to the store to buy a birthday present for “Ellen” that Laura is found, and Eloise starts to realize the death.
As Charles is working on the addition to the house he is called away to make an emergency delivery to Mancato, causing him to leave the house with a hole. Caroline hires an attractive young gentleman Chris Nelson to finish the house. Mary becomes suspicious of the gentleman when she finds him wearing Charles shirt, and when she sees him grab her ma. The grab was actually to keep Caroline from falling in the water. Mary and Caroline have a huge fight and the mess is straightened out. Chris leaves when he realizes the trouble he has caused, but Mary tells him to stay. By the time Charles returns they are great friends.
The Ingalls family travels to a nearby town for the annual fair. An exhausted Carrie decides to nap in the basket of a hot-air balloon, which is set free to the sky by Mary’s spiteful suitor.
An American Indian boy arrives in Walnut Grove seeking medical attention for his ill father. When the townspeople become hostile, Charles helps the small band of peaceful Indians escape.
Mary takes a teaching position in a backwoods community, but find the leader of the community, Miss Peal, against her and her teaching. Miss Peal cannot read, which is why she resents the children of the community learning to read, as Miss Peal will not be able to have the same control over them.
Charles takes Mary to a specialist when her eyesight starts to get worse, and the Ingalls suffer when Mary goes permanently blind. Mary becomes increasingly bitter because of her frustration over her blindness. Charles enrolls Mary into a school for the blind in Iowa, hopeful that it will help her. Mary is reluctant to stay, but ends up changing her mind when she meets her new teacher, Adam Kendall. Mary and Adam fall in love and make plans to meet in Winoka where they both will be teaching at the new school for the blind.
The Ingalls, Oleson’s, and Garvey’s decide to return to Walnut Grove from Winoka, with the Ingalls taking the orphan Albert Quinn with them to live with their family in Walnut Grove.

The children of the blind school give the Ingalls a lucky horseshoe for them to hang over their door when they return home to bring them luck and to remember them by.

However, when the Ingalls, Garveys and Olesons arrive in Walnut Grove, their longtime home, they are in for a shock when they discover the state of their beloved town.

When the families arrive in Walnut Grove, they are shocked to discover that Lars Hansen, the founder of the town, has suffered a stroke and has allowed Walnut Grove to become run down.  The returning families decide to help restore the town and contact the families on the surrounding farms of their restoration plans.
Laura is jealous when Charles spends all his time helping Albert, his adopted son, about how to raise a newborn calf. When Albert overhears Charles and Caroline discussing Laura’s jealousy, he decides to run away. When Laura shows he calf at the fair and she winds first place, she reveals that she owes the honor to her “brother” Albert, who was the one who prepared the calf for the show. Albert is secretly watching from behind a gate, and Charles sees him and chases him down. Charles convinces Albert that the family loves him and everything works out.
Albert Ingalls learns a painful lesson about prejudice when he becomes the apprentice of 80-year-old Isaac Singerman, the only Jew in Walnut Grove. Though young Albert is branded a “Jew-lover” and beaten up by local boys,he refuses to turn his back on the old woodcarver, who teaches him the value of pride and tradition.
Two men need money so they sell lamb cheaply to the residents of Walnut Grove, knowing that it might be infected with anthrax. Charles and Jonathan Garvey go out to get the medicine but a man holds them up while they are returning and steals the wagon. Charles and Jonathan follow him to his house and convince the crazed man and his wife to let them have the medicine. Many of the infected die, including the men who sold the lamb meat to the town. But all the main characters are saved with the timely arrival of the medicine.
Albert falls in-love with Sylvia, a girl from school. When she is raped, her father becomes shamed and keeps it a secret. When Albert finds out Sylvia is pregnant, he thinks she has doesn’t love him. Later, he learns the truth about her pregnancy and vows to take care of her and her baby despite her father who has become very protective and suspecting. Albert’s love, Sylvia, is troubled when her father has become cold and distant because he thinks she has shamed him. She runs away but is found by Albert. Seeing her unhappiness at home, he promises run away with her. When Albert goes into town for supplies, he unknowingly reveals her location to the rapist who then goes after her. The rapist is stopped but not before Sylvia is fatally injured.
Charles has to go to Walnut Grove to suggest that the farmers could share their crops, and as he doesn´t want to leave Albert in Burr Oak, he comes with him. On the way to Walnut Grove, they visit the university where Albert is planning to study. They realize that the price is very high, but Albert searches a scholarship. Back in Walnut Grove, Albert meets an old friend, Michele, and they seem to be fond of each other. Michele tells that she will go to the same university as Albert, and everything seem to be good.

But Albert doesn´t feel really well. He tries to hide it, but his nose often bleeds, and finally, he collapses. Dr.Baker sends him to a hospital, where the doctors tell that he is very sick. Albert decides to return to Walnut Grove and spend his last days there. He tries to live as normally as possible, but Laura is very worried about him in the beginning. Charles speaks about his suggestion, but the farmers are not positive at all. Albert stands up and tells what he thinks, and when they hear that he is sick, suddenly Charles suggestion is good(hmmm….). In the end, Albert and Laura follow the school pupils to a mountain with a place of memories. The story comes to end on the top of the mountain.

The people of Walnut Grove learn that their town is built on someone’s legal property and are asked to leave. Despite trying to fight the claim, they are ordered by the law to vacate the town. Before they leave, the town structures are torched and destroy so the new property owner would not make use of the town’s hard work.

[curated: 4/1/2023]