Niles Daily Star
June 13, 2006
Dean Kuipers’ third book, Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke, tells the story of marijuana activists Tom Crosslin and Rolland Rohm, who were shot and killed during a standoff with the FBI. “There’s this incredible arc from the way Rainbow […]
Salon
Michigan’s Rainbow Farm was a utopia for stoners, gays and dissenters. Then America’s anti-drug insanity erupted in its ugliest form.
June 13, 2006
June 13, 2006 | During those rare moments I find myself feeling uneasy about the course of the war on terror, I take consolation by looking back […]
Entertainment Weekly
June 9, 2006
This is the story of Tom Crosslin, a gay libertarian who owned a Michigan campground called Rainbow Farm where he hosted concerts in support of decriminalizing marijuana…and where, in 2001, he and his lover were shot to death during a five-day standoff with the FBI. Dean […]
Drugsense.org
June 9, 2006
When I received my review copy of the book “Burning Rainbow Farm” I didn’t know what to expect. Having talked with the author, Dean Kuipers, a few times over the years since that Friday morning, August 31, 2001 when Tom Crosslin burned Rainbow Farm to the ground, […]
Kirkus Reviews
May 15, 2006
The story behind the FBI raid on a Michigan farm that could have become the next Waco or Ruby Ridge-except that 9/11 intervened. On September 9, 2001, Los Angeles-based journalist Kuipers read a newspaper article about the killing of two men by FBI sharpshooters at a southwestern Michigan campground, […]
Publishers Weekly
May 8, 2006
During early September 2001, federal and state law enforcement agents staked out a farm in rural southwest Michigan. By the time they departed, farm owner Tom Crosslin and his life partner, Rollie Rohm, had been killed by government bullets. Los Angeles journalist Kuipers, who grew up […]
Booklist
2006
Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm were lovers who wanted to create a refuge for counterculture, libertarian types, including gays, live music aficionados, and pot smokers. Their Burning Rainbow Farm quickly achieved fame among those constituencies in their little corner of southwest Michigan. But when crusading DA Scott Teter decided […]
Notesonthescene.com
2006
Right before 9/11 in rural southwest Michigan, Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm’s dreams of a peaceful utopia were shot dead by sniper bullets. Owners and operators of Rainbow Farm, a campground and festival venue that became the center of marijuana activism in their region, and also the center of […]