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BEAR WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN At age 50, author and publisher Carll Tucker set out on a journey of self-discovery. After 26 years of marriage, three grown children, and a lifetime of doing what was expected of him, Tucker took to the open road in an RV to discover America—and himself—visiting the gravesites of our nation’s Presidents and Vice Presidents along the way. In his eloquent and amusing memoir, THE BEAR WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN: Finding America, Finding Myself, Tucker provides an eye-opening account of his path to rediscovery in midlife. Alone and unattached for the first time in his life, Tucker became a rebel on the road, living sparsely and experiencing a liberation he never knew possible. As he charts the course of 226 years of history, through 23 states and 65 headstones, Tucker confronts an America both familiar and unexpected. His personal journey led him to places he couldn’t have imagined either—from Wal-Mart and Disneyworld to Mount Rushmore and the Grand Ole Opry and, of course, to many RV parks. He explores the American towns that are the resting places of our deceased Presidents and Vice Presidents and unearths fascinating information about these men—some of them now only footnotes to our history. |
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