by Hank Nuwer | Mar 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer As a young journalist, I interviewed novelist Harry Crews. His books contained characters who performed in traveling “freak shows.” Always he presented them as sympathetic beings. I asked Crews why. He said he traveled with a circus for six months after...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer Lately, I’ve no time to spare. That’s because yours truly, a senior citizen turning 78 in August, is once again acting like a young man. I literally mean “acting.” I’ve hogged center stage in many theater productions and one movie filming. I rehearse or...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
The notorious Ira W. Porter by Hank Nuwer Notorious Randolph County (IN) resident Ira W. Porter was born in 1844, the son of James and Hannah Porter. Ira served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Around 1870, he married Mary A. Porter, and by 1880, fathered Nancy...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Photos courtesy of AAF CLA. Hank Nuwer playing The Professor in the 2024 play “Something in the Living Room.”
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Serendipity at the Hard Wok Cafe A cartoon in The New Yorker magazine last issue spoke to me. Old white-bearded Father Time stood on a street corner with a sign reading, “The End of Summer is near, and you still haven’t made any plans.” Too true, so on Saturday, Gosia...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Gosia is playing in the UAF film Love Me!” by Nolan Everett as filming commences this weekend. I play “Uncle” Arnold. The UAF Film division cebrated its 13th birthday. Here’s a long-ago photo of me as Lovborg in Hedda Gabler.
