Posts Tagged ‘family’
My Dad Believed in the Manly Art of Self-Defense. No Boxing Gloves for Grampa
#selfdefense #boxing #grandfather #grandchildren May 28 is the anniversary of my father’s death. I wrote about the days leading up to his death in an earlier article for this web site. My dad died on May 28, 1980, after a debilitating series of small strokes that diminished him in degrees until he was barely there…
Read MoreNRA — The Power of Dread on the Threshold of Anarchy
My recent article on gun control brought more visitors to my web site than any I have posted in the past two years. I appreciate the interest and I am grateful to those who took the time either to comment or write. This is my second article on the subject. I did not intend a…
Read MoreDetroit Riots in 1967 About Civil Rights Changed Lives, Perhaps the City Itself.
#detroitriots #civilrights #raceriots This is the final installment of a series that I have offered on my family’s experience living in Detroit during the mid-1960’s, a period of violent social unrest and the battle over Civil Rights. Readers are urged to read the previous post(s) before wading into this one. By Thursday, July 27, 1967,…
Read MoreCivil Rights Riots in Detroit Wongly Blamed on Failure to of President Johnson’s Great Society to Deliver
#detroitriots #civilrights #riots This is the fourth installment on a series that I have offered on my family’s experience living in Detroit during the mid-1960’s, a period of violent social unrest and the battle over Civil Rights. Readers are urged to read the previous post(s) before wading into this one. I did not feel that…
Read MoreRadiance, Phil Kenney’s Debut Novel, Deals with Age Old Questions of Life, Death and Fulfillment
Phil Kenney’s debut novel Radiance is a passionate family history that spans three generations until it settles on Jimmy and Daisy, mother and son, as the central characters. Kenney, a poet, knows that triumph and tragedy are defined by the context that we set for ourselves. The context can be as narrow as parent and…
Read MoreBattle for Civil Rights Erupts into Riot July 1967 in Detroit
#detroitriots #detroit #civilrights #riots This is a third installment on a series that I have offered on my family’s experience living in Detroit during the mid-1960’s, a period of violent social unrest and the battle over Civil Rights. Readers are urged to read the previous post(s) before wading into this one. My wife and I…
Read MoreCivil Rights Leaders Dubbed Detroit a Model City in the 1960’s. Riots Changed the Face of the City..
#dettoit #detroitriots #civilrights #riots This is the second article in a series that began with my previous post about moving my family to Detroit in 1966. I concluded that piece with the statement “Nothing in our Midwestern upbringing prepared us (my wife and me) for the changes, the violence, the hatred, and the heroics that…
Read MoreHolding Sweet Communion – A Debut Civil War Novel by Martha R. Brown
#civilwar #confederacy #historicalletters #armyofnorthernvirginia #gettysburg I have yet to write a review on my web site. Truth is, I don’t read very much. But Martha R. Brown and her husband Rod are friends of mine, and they knew of my interest in Civil War history. Consequently, when Martha reported finding a packet of letters that…
Read MoreDetroit, 1966, Testing Ground for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
#detroit #detroitriots #civilrightsact #riots Detroit was just another city, as far as I knew. Then my boss at the Minneapolis office of The Travelers called me one morning in the fall of 1965 to tell me that I was being transferred to the Motor City. I ran the two blocks from the bus stop on…
Read MoreAdoption Papers were Ready for Signature. My Son Needed to be Baptized First.
The following is an installment in a series of posts dealing with the options available to the underage parents of a child born out of wedlock during the 1950’s, before the advent of outpatient abortions, the pill, and a dramatic change in the public view with regard to sex prior to marriage. My son was…
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