by Hank Nuwer | Jul 23, 2024 | Sports, True Crime
Last Frontier Tales A cup of coffee in the Big Leagues Hank Nuwer The date was June 14, 1925. The Rheinlanders of Cincinnati showed up this Flag day to cheer their Reds against the Brooklyn Robins. This was the first game for new Brooklyn player-manager Zack (Buck)...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
I wanted to write a little something about the National Annie Oakley Center housed at Greenville’s Garst Museum. Naturally I walked one whole block from our house to the Union City, Ind., Carnegie Library. Always helpful library director Lawrence Sexton found me a...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last Frontier Days By Hank Nuwer President Warren Gamaliel Harding rose from newspaper editor in Marion, Ohio, to a “front porch” president after easily winning the 1920 election. Harding embarked on a tour of Alaska in 1923. His underlying goal was to...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hank Nuwer When The Right Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe died in British Columbia at age 85 in 1942, his thousands of friends and admirers in Alaska expressed surprise. His adventurous, rugged outdoorsman adventures, while Episcopal bishop in the North for nearly a half...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, True Crime
One of the most vicious murderers convicted of killing a victim in Randolph County invoked his constitutional right to an appeal in 2002. The Supreme Court of Indiana tagged the case as Anthony G. Hernandez v. State of Indiana. Here is the...
