by Hank Nuwer | Apr 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Week after week, 52 Wednesdays a year, Ohio publisher Charles W. Roland put out the Greenville Democrat from 1866 to 1899. His name at birth on Aug. 6, 1831, was Charles W. Rowlands. He was the son of a housewife and a shipyard worker from the Isle...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Margaret Andrianoff, known at home as Mary, was an infant born to a Japanese mother, when fisherman Constantine (Costia) Andrianoff and his wife Annie, an Alaska Native, adopted her, according to U.S. Census records of 1900. Margaret’s father’s identity was not known,...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
My new column is about an Alaska pioneering physician who did great things but was accused and acquitted of heinous acts with children. Alaska’s Pioneering Doctor Mahlon Freeborn Hall By Hank Nuwer While miners aplenty lived in Alaska during the early years of the...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
McNeil Island prisoner William Dempsey was one of three convicts on a road gang who escaped the Washington State prison in 1940. Dempsey and two other road-gang prisoners took advantage of dense fog conditions on January 30, 1940 to attempt a getaway from the... by Hank Nuwer | Mar 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer “Books…are like TV for smart people,” actor Robert Redford declares in the film “A Walk in the Woods.” Patrons from Union City, Indiana and Darke County, Ohio have borrowing privileges few border communities can boast. Any Darke County resident...
