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What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an 82-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit - often with his young daughters in tow - creator Michael Perry is about to find out. Toiling in a shop Perry details as "an antique store stocked by Rube Goldberg, curated by Hunter Thompson, and rearranged by a tiny earthquake", Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel deals with, parts for quarter-million-dollar plantation equipment, and - occasionally - batches of probably "extralegal" explosives. As he approaches his 60th loved-one's birthday with his better half, Arlene, Tom, well-known for driving a vehicle a team of oxen in local parades, has an endless tank of stories going out with back to days of his prize Model A, and an anti-authoritarian streak rejuvenated daily by the four-lane interstate that was shoved through his front yard in 1965 and now dumps over eight million vehicles past his kitchen screen every year. Yet Browsing Tom is dominated by the elderly man's equanimity and eventually - when he and Perry converse over your kitchen table as husbands and since the fathers of daughters - unvarnished tenderness.
