by Hank Nuwer | Sep 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Giving Face to Loss By Hank Nuwer “Stay the hell out of New York.” The message blipped onto my laptop screen, sent by a New York journalist acquaintance of mine who was covering the biggest story of his life. If words on a screen could be heard, these would have been...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” –The Eagles In 1982, on writing business, I drove to Hollywood, and the old neighborhood north of Sunset where I once lived. A mutual...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
100 years ago this month: Raymond E. Morris, 18 (born Feb. 26, 1906), tried to intervene when a mob of hazers picked on his little brother, Benjamin, 14. “Bennie” resisted the then-“traditional” hair scalping of high school first-year-students....
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
My column today profiles a Winchester member of the Cup of Coffee Club. That club consists of baseball players who participated in a single major league game. Troy Levi Puckett was a descendent of close-knit kin who held a family reunion each year in Randolph County....
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Dorothy Rowe, was the author of children’s books in the 1920s. She set her stories in China and Japan, including a best seller, “The Rabbit Lantern.” She taught children in Nanking, China, working with her missionary parents, when she met and married Benjamin March in...
