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Sounds from far away
Furniture or radio? Both. This is a Philco console radio, probably from the 1940s. I saw this while thrifting in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was only $65. No, I didn’t buy it. Not only would it not fit in my car, it wouldn’t fit where I live, either. But I know someone else is just… Continue reading
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Echoes of a past crash
Yesterday’s crash of a United Parcel Service MD-11 cargo jet brought back memories of a crash more than four decades ago. Continue reading
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Edward R. Murrow’s Powerful Buchenwald Broadcast
Eighty years ago this afternoon, legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow delivered one of the most important broadcasts of the 20th century, a report on his visit three days earlier to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. It took Murrow, as cool a journalist as they come, that long to process the horror. This 9-minute broadcast… Continue reading
About Me
Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
Nows and Forevers 