ADIRONDACK GREEN
Volume I of the ADIRONDACK GREEN trilogy

Dr. John Slade

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384 pp / Softcover
ISBN: 1-893617-15-7 (10 Digit) | 978-189-3617-155 (13 Digit)

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Volume I of the Adirondack Green Trilogy

ADIRONDACK GREEN is a novel that tells the story of a small American town which decides, after much debate, to put a wind turbine on top of the local ski mountain. This one Danish wind turbine is able to power the entire town: homes, stores, school, medical center, nursing home, even the ski lift. Excess power is sold to the New York grid; when the wind fades, power is bought from the grid.

The Class of 2004, thirty-two high school seniors, learn on the first day of school in September that they must contribute one hundred hours of community service in order to graduate in June. The story follows five of these seniors, who are assigned "to help" five older members of their community. Together, they build five extraordinary friendships, and move their little town toward a global renaissance.

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Boonville Herald Article (PDF file 57k)

Adirondack Express (PDF file 41k)

Reader: Bob Spear
Rating: 5 hearts

A small town in upstate New York decides to invest in their future today by installing a Danish wind turbine. The device will generate enough electricity for their whole community and allow them to sell the excess to the grid, thereby funding many worthy projects. The high school principle decides to inaugurate a community service requirement of 100 hours to each of 32 graduating seniors. He links up the students with various community senior citizens who both need their assistance and can give them mentoring. The development of their relationships is tied in with the installation of the wind turbine.

John Slade is the most positive author I know. His custom is to take a huge lemon of a negative issue and turn it into lemonade. In this story, he combines acid rain and the subsequent death of the New York forests and lakes and the war in Iraq and uses them as background settings and emotional motivations to drive his excellent story about this community. As always, he leaves me almost in tears while holding out hope for a brighter tomorrow. His writing is an emotional roller coaster ride that always ends up on a positive note. We rated his book five hearts.