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Field Work
Back in 2023 I took a trip down to Tuxedo Park in Rockland County to visit the site of the hangout of the villains in my novel. Claudius Smith’s “Den” is a well-documented location on one of the peaks that make up Dunderberg Mountain in the middle of Harriman State…
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License to Thrill?
“The Clove” is my attempt to retell part of the story of Claudius Smith’s notorious gang of terrorists, the latest and probably not the last of historical fictions to deal with the subject. Over the years, there have been more than a few variations on the story. Most published versions I…
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Bill
Back in the middle of the 1960s, after I was a Boy Scout but before I was a dropout and Vietnam War resistor, I was in the Episcopal Youth Community. Known as “EYC,” The organization is worldwide, but the individual chapters have autonomy over what the local group is about.…
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Going with the Flow
If you have been following this blog, you probably wondered what has happened to the almost daily posts. Well, there have been a few interruptions, the weather got nicer, the Yankees have been playing better, illness, life in general, but basically, I got stuck in a procrastination loop. It didn’t…
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A new beginning.
From The Clove: “Rachel watched John change from the good-hearted, smiling farmer she married to a driven, hard-hearted land broker. Rachel finally put her foot down. She told him, “John Earl, you have no friends, you rarely see your family, and (with the slightest pout), I am quite sure you…