The Spy from Weirdsboro: And Other True Wartime Love Stories (Memoirs of a Tarheel Guitar Player) - Softcover

The Spy from Weirdsboro is brutally honest, insidiously funny and romantic. These true stories reveal a magical interplay of lives, loves, history and what some people would call remarkable coincidence. As you read Lee Bridgers' stories the world gets smaller and underlying forces grow clearer as he stumbles into danger, surviving with dumb luck, death wish courage and a ridiculously strange, seemingly psychic sense of timing and intuition that is sometimes hard to believe. Courting insanity in the pyschedelic ethers he falls in love at every twist and turn. Coincidence takes on a new meaning when you calculate the odds as Bridgers encounters what he calls his "angels on Earth," living beings, souls placed in his life to teach, guard and guide him. He returns the favor and these lawless friends, lovers and foils create comedy and drama that seems like fiction but is completely true. Generations since have envied the fun, risky and sexually free lifestyle in the 60's, but in the process of living these stories, Lee Bridgers put himself in great danger and it is a wonder that he is still alive to share them. Weirdsboro is only the first volume in a remarkable series of books that accomplish a unique goal in the art of memoir; the revelation of why. Set amid the desperation and dread of wartime in an era when military intelligence pushed mind bending drugs on a generation of children, each story in the series stands alone as a finely crafted short story, but combined in their total there is a powerful montage as the strange synchronicity of seeming chance encounters begins to add up to a confirmation of the magic and beauty of life and Creation.