#62 Guest Author Gretchen Cherington

Guest Author GRETCHEN CHERINGTON returned to chat with hosts Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell about her recently released memoir THE BUTCHER, the EMBEZZLER, and the FALL GUY: A FAMILY MEMOIR OF SCANDAL AND GREED IN THE MEAT INDUSTRY. In 1922, George A. Hormel-founder of the multibillion-dollar company Hormel Foods--fired Gretchen Cherington's grandfather, Alpha LaRue Eberhart, after a decade-long embezzlement scandal. Was he, as rumors suggested, complicit? Cherington digs deep to understand what really happened one hundred years ago--and to make sense of her complicated legacy. Gretchen's in depth research led to insights never before revealed. This book reads like a suspenseful mystery...was her grandfather the "embezzler" or the "fall guy?"

Hosts: Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell 
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Aired November 2, 2023