tells the horrific and heroic story of the relentless paralysis of Sam Kann from ALS. It’s the tale of one family’s encounter with a brutal disease. And it’s a story of clashes between son and father. Ken was from the rebellious postwar baby boom generation; Sam was a conventional parent from the generation formed in the Depression, World War II, and the postwar suburbs. Sam needed Ken to help him with ALS, and that brought Ken back home to the project of growing up. Sam’s struggle for life with the ALS calamity, his desperation as a quadriplegic, culminated with his request to Ken for help with suicide. They made a plan. But events did not go as planned.

tells the saga of the extraordinary Petaluma Jewish chicken ranching community. It portrays a wonderfully contentious American Jewish community, from the Yiddish speaking socialist immigrant settlers, through their American-born children torn between their parents’ Old World community and America, and then baby boom grandchildren who became dissociated from their community and history. It’s the story of immigration and assimilation over generations in twentieth century America.

tells the story of a Jewish Communist trade union organizer. Through interviews with Kenneth Kann, Joe describes his life from childhood in a Ukrainian shtetl, through emigration to the United States, becoming a left-wing trade union organizer in the New York needle trades, and then moving West where he joined the Petaluma Jewish chicken ranching community and became a community activist. Through Joe’s life, Joe and Ken recount twentieth century Jewish immigrant radicalism in the United States.