Readers will meet a host of people who are anything but ordinary. The author’s quirky and engaging style introduces you to a young man with a life threatening illness who left indelible footprints, an eccentric couple who hosted the fan dancer Sally Rand during the last years of her life, a boy who grew up in the gold mines in British Columbia who later rebuilt one of the world’s largest copper mines in the Congo, and many more. Travel to Cajun country, the Navajo Nation, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, a bowling alley in Brooklyn, a cafe in Alabama, a tiny hospital in western Kansas, San Miguel de Allende Mexico, and a pickle factory in Missouri. Share the experiences of veterans of WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. This book had me laughing and crying, all within a few paragraphs. What these unheralded people have done is extraordinary.