Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895) - A young man yearns to join the fighting during the American Civil War, only to discover that the reality of the war and who he is are different than he imagined. This book appears on the list of "Required Reading in School" for a lot of... Continue Reading →
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army by Robert O'Harrow Jr. (2016) - Lost amid the names of generals of the Civil War is the man who may have had as much to do with the victory of the Union as any commander in the field, Montgomery Meigs. It... Continue Reading →
Jefferson Davis - The Man And His Hour by William C. Davis (1991) - A detailed biography of the man who was "the face" of the Confederate States of America. The author follows Davis from birth to his final breath and examines the events that shaped the man who became the center of the Civil... Continue Reading →
A World On Fire by Amanda Foreman (2012) - We all learned about the American Civil War. Lincoln, the Confederacy, Gettysburg, slavery and Appomattox. When we got a little older we may have learned a little more, that it wasn't quite so cut and dried and that the war was an enormous bloodbath that forever... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 