The Melon Capital of the World: A MemoirIn this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the author to confront his own sad and disturbing history, one that parallels his hometown's decline. Allmendinger's family was dominated by his emotionally and mentally unstable mother, who became