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...
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...
