Sacrificial Rituals

Sacrificial Rituals is about what happened a small town in southeastern Montana when community leaders decided they desperately needed economic development. Chronically low commodity prices are afflicting local farms and ranches, and Main Street businesses, their suppliers, are going broke. Young people have to leave because they can't make a living.  When a Wise Use organizer comes to town, the trouble starts.
He tells them they need a company that no body else wants.  The community leaders soon find what he recommends in an incineration company that had been banned from operating in Washington, where it was a responsible party to two different Superfund sites.
When few people object, things get very ugly. The county librarian is assaulted, death threats circulate, and one of the community's leading citizens dies in a suspicious plane wreck.
Sacrificial Rituals explores the sacrifices we offer up to keep a civilization that is destroying the planet functioning. At times a simple report of what happened in a small community, at other times a more philosophical investigation of the ideas underlying events, Sacrificial Rituals is an intense and emotional effort to change the way we walk upon the earth.