THE THICKET'S PRODIGY

The Thicket's Prodigy began as a simple project composed of my personal recollections of life growing up in East Texas and spending a few years in Los Alamos New Mexico. But it became much more. And so did the research. Dad's story required a factual accounting of three, highly complex topics, each constituting a story on its own: Texas' Big Thicket, Los Alamos and the atomic bomb, high-powered computation, and NASA's trip to the moon. Added to those was my insider's experience with a World Wide