America's Coasts in Climate Crisis - Route 66 in a Pandemic - A year inside state fairs & Traveling Carnivals
Michael Sean Comerford
Bestselling Author & Multimedia Journalist
Gods of the Goodbye Coasts - Beast of Main Street - American OZ
★★★★★
Beliefs of everyday people change the climate - Are we doomed or will hope & tech save us
I am working on Gods of the Goodbye Coasts: America's Coasts in Climate Crisis. I embarked on a year-long epic climate project video-interviewing hundreds of ordinary people about their views on climate. In all, about 7,000 bicycled miles across 22 states along the Atlantic, Pacific & Gulf coasts!
Fishermen, housewives, firemen, teachers, oil men, young & old, rich & poor tell their views on the climate. Check out the YouTube channels.
Almost 40 percent of the US lives on coasts & deal with hurricanes and wildfires, to rising seas and floods - life and death made visible.
The Butterfly Effect & chaos theory prove tiny changes are world changers. That means every life matters so listening is a force of nature.
Writing this book changed how I view the climate crisis and how I see everything ...
“It touched me … You can see & hear the emotions!”— Sasha-Ann Simons, WBEZ Chicago public radio
Through all the suffering & fear I witnessed, people sought meaning in life & what really matters in the end.
Listen to people struggling to cope with the Covid pandemic. I bicycled slowly from Chicago to L.A. along America's Main Street - Route 66 to hear these stories.
Liberals, conservatives, a Proud Boy, rich, poor, young, old, and Route 66 characters tell heartbreaking and life-affirming stories.
View the POWERFUL YouTube conversations at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAoCTKRdaIVX3B3nV0X2MrQ - The ride was in cooperation with the University of Florida's Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
It's timeless, and emotion packed. Gain perspectives on an adventure by listening to "common people in uncommon times."
“One of the best books I’ve read in the last decade!” – Rick Kogan, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Chicago Tribune, WGN
Step right up for Comerford's astonishing year working in traveling carnivals for American OZ. The art of making other people happy!
People seek love and adventure on the open road.
It's a year of working state fairs and festivals from California to New York, Alaska to Mexico -- hitchhiking almost the entire route.
Read wild stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last King of the Sideshows. An insult dunk tank clown is shot. Masked gunmen rob the carnival. And a young showman friend dies on the road.
You'll never see your state fair or local carnival the same way again.
American OZ
"One of the best books I've read in the last decade!"
Comments by Rick Kogan, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Chicago Tribune columnist, WGN host, book lover
Beast of Main Street
"It touched me! ... You can see & hear the emotions!"
Comments by Sasha-Ann Simons, host of Reset, WBEZ Public Radio Chicago, book lover
