If anyone in town has been wondering what Theodore Carl Soderberg was up to the summer of 1972, you can find out in his newest memoir, The Summer of '72, Haight-Ashbury To Alaska. Theodore attended Newtown High School in the mid-1960s, worked at Fairfield State Hospital, and served in Vietnam. This book, his second, tells the tale of his summer college vacation in 1972, when a psychedelic experience led him to forgo the easy life on California beaches for the hazardous, and sometimes hilarious, life of a commercial fisherman. "After being dumped in the frigid Alaskan water, two fires aboard, and having shot a bear, along with many other 'unusual incidences,' I felt compelled to write The Summer of '72," Theodore tells me, and adds, "My only regret is that I never brought a camera." He is currently working on two more books based on his life's adventures. The Summer of '72 is available online at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Froogle, or at authorsden.com/tcs.