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2807, 2006

Drug Truth Network

By Dean Kuipers|2019-06-19T07:57:46-08:00July 28th, 2006|Categories: Press|Comments Off on Drug Truth Network

Drug Truth Network with host Dean Becker

1807, 2006

In These Times

By admin|2006-07-18T00:57:27-08:00July 18th, 2006|Categories: Press|Tags: Burning Rainbow Farm|Comments Off on In These Times

In These Times July 18, 2006 by Steven Wishnia The motto of Rainbow Farm in Vandalia, Mich., could have been "A Working-Class Hippie Is Something to Be." On Memorial and Labor Day weekends from 1996 [...]

707, 2006

Utopia Gone to Pot

By admin|2019-06-19T07:57:46-08:00July 7th, 2006|Categories: Press|Tags: Burning Rainbow Farm|Comments Off on Utopia Gone to Pot

Lux Esto July 7, 2006 by Zinta Aistars Surrounded by forces in blue, and most every other color of uniform, Rainbow Farm blazed in a fury of flames while guns were trained on the two [...]

2206, 2006

Lansing City Pulse

By admin|2019-06-19T07:57:46-08:00June 22nd, 2006|Categories: Press|Tags: Burning Rainbow Farm|Comments Off on Lansing City Pulse

Lansing City Pulse June 22, 2006 by Bill Castanier There was no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow only fire, destruction, death and the end of a dream. In 1997, when Tom [...]

2006, 2006

Ashes at the end of Rainbow Farm

By admin|2019-06-19T07:57:46-08:00June 20th, 2006|Categories: Press|Tags: Burning Rainbow Farm|Comments Off on Ashes at the end of Rainbow Farm

Detroit News June 20, 2006 by Michael H. Hodges Some call it Michigan's own mini-Waco. Just one week before the September 11 terrorist attacks, FBI and state police sharpshooters took out the two owners [...]

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Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting, fishing and working, but not at much else that makes a real father or husband. Conflicted, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife, Nancy, and alienated his three sons—journalist Dean, woodsman Brett, and troubled yet brilliant fisherman Joe. He distrusted people and clung to rural America as a place to hide.

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