It may get redundant, as you read the first chapters of the novel, but one thing 1966 was remembered for, was the horrible winter. Bitter cold temperatures in the teens, harsh winds, snow that closed the Springfield schools (unfortunately, I’m from Lebanon which really didn’t have snow days until I started attending school in the …
Color on television was a big deal in the mid 60s. Television news was the last programs to switch to color. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite went to color in February of 1966. The Huntley & Brinkley Report on NBC & the ABC World News would not go to color broadcast until later …
I apologize for not posting very much lately, but my time has been taken up with new duties at work & dealing with my parent’s estate. Speaking of estates, I bought a large collection of the weekly, Life magazine-knock-off, Look magazine at an estate sale, here in Springfield. My sister was looking at them & …
One of the complaints made against the excerpts of my novel, posted on Facebook, was that i mentioned “songs that people are not familiar with.” Granted, this person is in my age group and quite a few people, of my generation, refuse to listen to any music made before 1981. So, here is a playlist …
NEW NOTE: I’m happy to report that this sneak peak chapter has received several hits, according to the stats provided by WordPress and Jetpack. I noticed that in my haste to post this in time for Valentine’s Day three years ago, I had some typos, as well as I have since changed the name of …
(Image created with Co-Pilot) Mykel and Clint got dressed up to go downstairs to the party in the girl’s suite. As they changed their clothes, they got acquainted by telling each other about their hometowns. “There isn’t very much in Hermes. We have a a bank, a grocery store, a hardware and feed store, a …
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 