by Hank Nuwer | Sep 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last Frontier Days War in the Aleutians and More: Robert L. Sherrod’s Correspondence By Hank Nuwer Historian Ray E. Boomhower’s detailed book, “Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod” (Indiana University Press,...
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
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...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Do the Crime, Do the Time By Hank Nuwer About the time Butch Cassidy and his gang robbed banks for fun and profit out West, Ohio also had its own dirty, lowdown bank robber. Only difference, instead of stickups, Zachariah T. (Z. T.) Lewis of...
