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....
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
The year 1889 brought prosperous times to Winchester and Randolph County. It seemed as if the good times never would end. Few imagined the Panic of 1893 and its consequences lasting clear into 1897. But national pride was everywhere in 1889. Inventors went wild with...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
April 26, 2023 (updated) Faculty Interviews, MWW E-pistle, News Hank Nuwer is best known for his four young adult and adult books on the topic of hazing in society-including High School Hazing. He teaches journalism at Franklin College, Indiana but speaks on hazing at...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
See Video at Sons of the Dawn: A Basque Odyssey See Video of Death of A Rookie by Mike Ayalon See video of The Broken Pledge by Hank Nuwer
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
My wife Gosia earned her Green Card in October 2019. She gave eight-weeks’ notice at her chief accountant job in Poland and shipped what she could to Indiana. “Wait, how did a fellow from Indiana meet a Polish lass,” you may ask? I persuaded Gosia in June of 2015 via...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
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)...
