by Hank Nuwer | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
You probably imagined I’d cry tears of joy, and I did. Eight years from application to citizenship for my bride. We are so proud of being American and no less proud of our roots in Poland. Just take a bow, Gosia. You took the oath today, and America has one...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Farewell to the best of us journos. By Hank Nuwer John Carlson started as a copyboy in the 70s at Muncie’s evening paper. Years later, gruff World War II veterans like Dick Stodghill asked him to bring over a coffee. But jokes aside, at a newspaper with many good...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
CELINA, OH – A little over a year ago, Sue Markins’ phone rang. The caller said she was calling on behalf of her birth family in Japan. Markins, a Walmart pharmacy technician, was flummoxed by the call from an overseas stranger. “I hung right... by Hank Nuwer | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Today I write about an Arcanum, Ohio native opposed not only to the start of that last war in Afghanistan, but also the Vietnam War. Her maiden name was Marianna Munn. She was the farmer’s daughter of Eva and John Munn, the latter the longtime head of the school board... by Hank Nuwer | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
My personality was formed by two different worlds I inhabited before I was 20 when I set out to earn a living as a writer and professor. I lived then in tough Buffalo, New York, neighborhoods during the week and on my two grandparents’ bucolic farms on weekends and... by Hank Nuwer | Mar 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
All — This is a remembrance of my visit to a leper colony. It may change your thinking on leprosy. It changed mine. By Hank Nuwer Some of my best feature stories never appeared in print. That’s because the era from 1976 to 1992 — when I wrote...
