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The Blue Zoo

Written by: Steven Greenwell
Narrated by: Brian Rosel
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 The Blue ZooA humorous, lightly fictionalized coming-of-age memoir featuring a brainy, awkward boy with a touch of what we now call OCD. Growing up in the fifties and sixties, Arthur (Arty) Greenspring dreams of becoming a cadet, inspired by The West Point Story on TV. A quiet kid from a working-class family living in a little Kansas town, Arty has no idea he has inner gifts and strengths, and his shyness and lack of belief in himself eventually cause him to forget his childhood fantasy of becoming something more than only average. His father, however, remembers. A postal clerk who gave up training as an Army Air Corps pilot to support his family at the end of WWII, Artys dad latches onto his sons childhood dream and embraces it as his own. This Arty discovers with dismay at age 17, when his father shockingly buys a brand-new, sky-blue, 1966 Ford Custom four-door sedan, with the intention, come hell or high water, to drive his son to West Point, and to do it, moreover, in style.This act unleashes a series of slap-stick adventures as our hero struggles to jump through all the hoops to check off all the necessary requirements to gain admittance to an elite military academy, from building a resume to acing the SATs, to trying to letter in football, wrestling, or any sport at all, despite his glaring lack of athletic ability. Arty never nabs an appointment to West Point, the oldest U.S. military academy, but some lucky breaks and his own head-down, blustering perseverance earn him an appointment to the newest, the U.S. Air Force Academy in far-away Colorado Springs.Affectionately dubbed the Blue Zoo by cadets, USAFA was designed to give newbies the blues from the moment they first pass under the giant stone portico that famously announced, Bring Me Men. How does Arty do in his summer training course at the Zoo? Will he make the grade and earn his coveted shoulder boards? Based on actual events, The Blue Zoo relates our heros mock-epic struggles from Basic Cadet Training through Hell Week and recognition as a member of the cadet wing, as he is told to maintain his sense of humor but warned to lose his smile. He suffers a five-shave day before learning proper grooming; incoordination makes his marching robotic; decidedly a dork, he must nevertheless conquer the grueling obstacle course cursed as Hells Half Acre.The Blue Zoo takes place in more innocent times and is based on events of sixty years ago, yet the voice, dreams and experience of Arty Greenspring still ring true today. The odyssey of an odd boy that readers of all ages will enjoy, The Blue Zoo is a classic American coming-of-age story of a self-described country bumpkin who adventures out into the world. Proving himself to himself in the process of pursuing his boyhood dream, Steven Greenwells Arthur Greenspring transforms from a would-be into a cadet and a newly mature young man.©2026 Steven Greenwell (P)2026 Steven Greenwell Military & War
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