Burnt Toast: Trouble in the Nation’s Breadbasket
By Paul Gunter
 Ron Reick and I organized to take a horse drawn wagon across the state of New Hampshire from Hinsdale on the Connecticut River to Seabrook to raise the public awareness of the first Clamshell occupation of the nuke construction site scheduled for August 1, 1976. Steppingstone Farm over in Marlow generously loaned us “Dick,†a well muscled Percheron and the gentlest of their team of draft work horses. Cornelia Iselin had found us a sturdy enough donated farm wagon which we fixed with bowed saplings covered over with an army tarp. Her son George volunteered to be our experienced teamster for the journey. About a dozen of us set out in mid-July 1976 on a ten-day easterly trek using the back of the wagon as our stage for an anti-nuclear puppet show to take the message of nuclear power literally “to the village square.†Our theme and touring performance “Burnt Toast: Trouble in the Nation’s Breadbasket†was composed and single-handedly performed by Eric Wolfe. Actually, he had to use both hands most of the time. Read the rest of this entry »