An Evening with Finn Murphy!
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Wednesday, Aug 9, 2023 6pm - 7pm
Location
Old Firehouse Books
232 Walnut Street
Details
Old Firehouse Books is delighted to welcome Finn Murphy to the store! He will be celebrating his latest book Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West on Wednesday, August 9th at 6 pm MT. This event will be taking place at the store. Readers will have the chance to say hi to this amazing author and have their books signed. Books can be purchased in advance of the event, or on the day of.
More about Rocky Mountain High:
The best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his fortune… in hemp.
After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in “the Hemp Space.” When hemp was legalized, after eighty years in federal exile, Colorado became the center of a hemp growing and processing boom. Figuring he’d harvest some of that easy money, Murphy bought a thirty-six-acre farm. What could go wrong? Well, pretty much everything…
Rocky Mountain High is the comic chronicle of a wild year as Murphy follows his Great American Dream, gradually losing his shirt but not his spirit. Pivoting away from growing hemp himself, he decides to make himself a middleman. He builds drying sheds the size of football fields. He battles with freezing temperatures and even colder bankers. And he assembles an eclectic crew of workers, including the wry and vastly talented Manuel, the business savvy Pierce, and a scruffy army of “trimmigrants”—specialized farm laborers who roam the country pursuing (or not) their own American Dreams. Pretty soon, Murphy is pitting his dwindling cash against the mercurial buyers who inhabit the Wild West of the hemp market.
Told with Murphy’s trademark wit, keen eye for character, and sharp insights into the hardscrabble society around him, Rocky Mountain High is an inside look at the alluring world of the hemp boom and a masterful tale of one entrepreneur’s misadventures.
Please email events@oldfirehousebooks.com if you have any questions.
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