The End of the Empire is an eighty-year-long saga that tells the story of three generations of the MacAlpine and Bergen families, while at the same time paralleling the trajectory of the nation. The story begins after best friends Harold Bergen and Cameron MacAlpine return from World War II, and begin to pursue their dream of building families and community.
Author Keith Loveland's complex and interconnected characters take the reader from the suburbs of Minneapolis to the State Department in Washington, D.C.,
to the hardscrabble hills of Appalachia, down winding streets in Bulgaria, and into the mountains of Afghanistan.
Copies of The End of the Empire are available for purchase on Amazon in both eBook and print-on-demand formats.
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Fishing
by Keith Loveland, FSPE
Tom Venner taught me everything I know about fishing in the Mississippi River. "Think about it from their point of view,"
is how he explained it to me. "Cast your line where they’re likely to be," he said. "You'll catch more that way."
I was wet from my knees down to my toes, wading upstream towards the falls which gave this village its name, Big Rapids.
Most of me was staying dry. My socks were in a back pocket of my blue jeans, and I had tied the laces of my sneakers
together and slung them around my neck.