Independence Day

Well Papa go to bed now, it’s getting late Nothing we can say can change anything now Because there’s just different people coming down here now and they see things in different ways And soon everything we’ve known will just be swept away Bruce Springsteen, Independence Day Facebook flagged the Declaration of Independence as Hate […]

City of Motherless Children

“It was like fractured pieces trying to converge — their experience today, my history — being in this place where I had been as a child,” Ina said. I had the good fortune of growing up in South Florida in the seventies, a prehistoric era of AOR radio before the internet – when video games […]

June 14, 2018

“First reports of a flag day celebration came out of Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1860s. Around that time, schools all over the country were holding Flag Day celebrations in the hopes of making immigrant children feel more connected to the country. ” Newsweek Happy Flag Day!

When That Rough God Goes Riding

There’ll be no more heroes They’ll be reduced to zero When that rough god goes riding Riding on in Van Morrison I got an email the other day that started with the greeting “Motherfucker!”. It wasn’t meant to be a friendly slap on the back – it was more of a threat. And it came […]

A West Virginia School Of Excellence

Papoo Crofton transferred from Ohio Northern University to the prestigious Foreign Service School at Georgetown University in 1927, where he drove a cab to put himself through Law School. He went home to West Virginia and was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Wood County in 1936. He was a union man, a champion of the underdog […]