In 1968, Doug slung his backpack & guitar onto a freight train bound for New York.
His joyride became a mythic journey to the world's most bizarre barbecue, a guitar concert at gunpoint,
and new relationships to his father and the draft.
On the bouncy road to becoming a conscientious
objector, he faced inner city war zones and railroad
detectives - and spent seventy-two hours living like
cargo.
Bonding with a friend to escape death, he rediscovered the true heroes of his childhood.
Contents:
The Light Brigade
Pulling Away from Chicago
Singing at Gunpoint
Rattling Through Cleveland
Living As Cargo
New York Dawn.
The stories are interspersed with singing and 12-string guitar. "Lipman not only paints bold pictures of male characters, he also shows insight into male character....Hopping Freights is worth the trip." - Boston Phoenix.
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