Jim Geiwitz
Jim Geiwitz was born and raised in Minneota, a small town in Minnesota. The population, in the 1950s, was about 1200 souls, and today it’s about the same. Everyone knows everyone’s business; that’s the way it is in small towns. It’s a good life, not always, but usually. Jim left Minneota to attend one of the many fine small colleges in the Midwest, St. Olaf (the same college that the Great Gatsby attended). He went on to a series of careers, including university professor, research scientist, industrial-hemp farmer, freelance writer, online-newspaper editor, book reviewer, political spin doctor, and consultant to businesses on how to deal with the unpredictability of nonlinear (chaotic) systems. He has lived in many large cities, including San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Pittsburgh, and Victoria (BC, Canada), but his heart remains in the Town of Watered-Down Whiskey.
The Town of Watered-Down Whiskey
For some, growing up in a place where everyone knows everybody evokes memories of grandmothers’ quilts, cruisin’ after school, and leaning in for your first kiss. But for others, a small town becomes a prison and as each year passes, the cell bars grow closer to asphyxiation. In The Town of Watered-Down Whiskey, Geiwitz taps into the nostalgia and claustrophobia of Smalltown, America, where each citizen learns they have an outlandish, wise, regretful, or tragic role to play, whether they choose it or not.
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Praise for Jim Geiwitz
“A superb interweaving of history, fairy tale, and fascinating characters, through which both the nurturing and the destructive small-town culture emerge.”
Jim Swanson
author of Sports and All that Jazz: The Percy Hughes Story