by Hank Nuwer | Aug 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
If the citizens of Cordova of 1911 were to adopt a slogan, it might be “Take this coal and shove it.” And shove it or, more accurately, shovel it they did—by the ton. The brouhaha began back in 1906. President Teddy Roosevelt’s...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Dirty Lawman Gets a Second Chance By Hank Nuwer Blackford County Sheriff Ira M. Barton was 49 when a photo of him with wide, hooded eyes appeared in a Muncie newspaper on December 29, 1931. A headline read “Jailed!” A...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Seven to nine years ago, I commuted from the U.S. to Poland to court my now-wife Gosia, and she did the same in reverse, meeting me by turns in Alaska and Indiana. We were good friends for two years before getting hitched, although I assure you that we both were...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Flying the Unfriendly Skies By Hank Nuwer Although I fly frequently, I don’t know any unruly passengers. Except one, I admit. Me. This incident occurred the time I boarded a flight to Minneapolis and buried my nose in an airline magazine. Vaguely, as I read, the...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
To amuse his children, struggling fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1956 devised a boardgame he called HQ, short for Headquarters. Wait, a pacifist invented a war game? True enough, the reasoning perhaps being that playing at war bore no resemblance to the real thing....
