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Books In Sync Recognizes Author Phibby Venable

Author’s Bio: Phibby Venable's work has been published in 2River, Poetrybay, Southern Ocean Review, Sow's Ear, Voices, the Appalachian Journal & various other national & international magazines. Phibby Venable lives in Abingdon, Virginia. Much of her work depicts the Appalachian & Blue Ridge Mountains.Phibby works actively in human & animal rescue. Featuring: Blue Cold Morning by Phibby Venable Reflections on everything from jazz to independent living, probing insights captured… Continue

Added by Theodocia McLean on January 7, 2010 at 3:01pm — No Comments

Books In Sync Announces Dead Of Knight By Award Winning Author William R. Potter

DEAD of KNIGHT Is A Jack Staal Mystery: Your next birthday could be murder! Believing he is a soldier of justice, a misguided young man begins a callous campaign of terror murdering women on their birthdays. Convinced of his righteousness he continues his brutal crusade forcing the citizens of Hanson B.C. to acknowledge a serial killer active in their rural community. The Mounties always get their man…but not if Jack Staal gets him first! The Royal Canadian Mounted Police put their Integrate… Continue

Added by Theodocia McLean on November 17, 2009 at 9:52am — No Comments

Tombstone Court and Duke Spots Fillmore Fire

During the next several blog postings I plan to use excerpts from 'Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone' take you inside Judge Wells Spicer's courtroom and let you hear from the people that were actually there in 1881. You'll get it straight from the witnesses, attorney's and the judge as well as Doc and Wyatt's take on the proceedings. Monday, October 31, 1881 Judge Wells Spicer walked into his courtroom at exactly three o'clock and one glance at the spectators in the room told him he had a… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on September 23, 2009 at 3:57pm — No Comments

Jacob's Turn and the Tombstone Lawyers

'We hold these truths to be self evident...' Excerpt from 'The Goring Collection' Jacob Meyers, a short balding man in his early seventies sat, before his living room fireplace, waiting for the others to arrive. The apartment overlooked the East River and the living room was comfortably furnished with wall paintings; a soft leather couch, chairs, and a large coffee table made from the hatch cover of a World II Liberty ship. Jacob glan… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on September 16, 2009 at 2:07pm — No Comments

Western Myth and a Tip from Max Perk

Researching a Legend Part 8 The Atlanta Historical Society had provided another piece to the Holliday puzzle, an important piece and yet I sensed that there was much more that I didn’t know, that no one knew or at least no one had published. Too many western historians and writers had relied on myth – not well enough sourced to be called fact. Too many footnotes, taken as fact, could not stand the critical test when it came to providing multiple sources. I believe that the true Holliday… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on August 11, 2009 at 12:35pm — No Comments

Margaret Mitchell, Edna Ferber and The Goring Collection

Researching a Legend Part 7 ‘Doc Holliday’s Road to Tombstone’ Once inside the Atlanta Historical Society building I approached the desk and asked a young lady about the Margaret Mitchell papers. She thought for a moment and said, ‘We had a collection of her papers until two weeks ago when the Mitchell Estate had them transferred to the University of Georgia in Athens. And from what we’ve heard, for the time being they are sealed and can’t be viewed.’ I expect I showed my disappointment a… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 29, 2009 at 4:46pm — No Comments

The Battle of Manassas -- Heroes and Legends

First Manassas: July 21, 1861 For this historical event we are preempting and delaying Prologue Part 6 for one week. Tuesday July 16, 1861 Courier delivers secret note from Washington to Confederate General Beauregard in Northern Virginia. ‘Order issued McDowell to march on Manassas tonight.’ Showdown: Beauregard immediately notifies Rebel commanders to send, without delay, divisions to be positioned along the Bull Run. ‘The Goring Collection’ Followed by FBI agents, Sam Brannan… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 22, 2009 at 2:06pm — No Comments

We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident

‘The Goring Collection’ Prologue Part 5 On his return trip to San Francisco Jacob had time to think and reflect on his experiences of the past three days. What was truly amazing to him was how he had fit right in with the Bromfield family and their friends. Then as he looked out at the California countryside he was reminded of Tony Rockwell’s remark about his political leanings. ‘…Are you truly as far left as you profess to be?’ Jacob was aware that his zest for the Communist Party was no… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 15, 2009 at 7:29pm — No Comments

Old South, Champagne for Jacob and Flaubert

Researching a legend Part 4 Griffin Slave Sale and Magnolias. Griffin, Georgia Doc Holliday’s birthplace is right smack in the middle of the Old South. And while the city has grown and taken on a more modern look, some of the buildings from the 1800’s are still standing beside the modern, and from time to time you might get a touch of nostalgia when you smell the magnolias. Among the buildings built in the 1800’s is the Byington Hotel, located at Broadway and Hill; another is a two-stor… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 8, 2009 at 2:36pm — No Comments

Turn Left on Fremont and walk to the OK Corral

Researching a Legend Part 3 North on Fourth and left on Fremont I paused at the corner of Fourth and Allen and took out my 1881 street map to refresh my memory just to get a better idea of how it looked then. Some of the prominent landmarks I’d read about were still there some were not. Walking north toward Fremont Street Hafford’s Corner Saloon was first on my right with the Brown Hotel, Gun Shop and News Stand farther along. On the left was an Assayer’s office, Zeckendorf Building, a v… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 1, 2009 at 1:55pm — No Comments

In Search of Doc Holliday

Researching a Legend: Part One Chasing Hurricanes had its moments but the last two segments of my TV Series; “Georgia’s Heritage” took anxiety and fear to a whole new level. I was given 3 days to research, write and narrate, on camera, a film documentary of the Okefenokee Swamp. With the help of an inventive and hard working crew we managed to finish the film and beat the deadline. Then we were off to Valdosta, Georgia where I had my first brush with the legendary Doc Holliday. We filmed… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on June 17, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Oz, Wind and The Great Gatsby

Let’s Go to the Movies Part 14 Exhausted! Victor Fleming never got a break between his work on ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and his assignment to ‘Gone With the Wind.’ Under normal circumstances, with only a couple of days rest it would have been enough for a routine transition. However, his assignment to ‘Gone With the Wind,’ was anything but routine. The general public had already formed opinions and had high expectations of what they wanted from reading the 1034 page novel. And David Selznick h… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on April 22, 2009 at 2:16pm — No Comments

GWTW on Location, Nazi Stolen Art and Blogging

Let’s go to the Movies David Selznick had some sleepless nights mulling over his vision for the final cut of his Gone With the Wind film. Not only did it involve the length of the picture it involved the grand scope of every frame. Could they make a larger than life picture within the confines of their back lot? The answer was a resounding NO. Selznick tackled the problem and alluded to a partial answer in a memo dated March 9, 1939 directed to Ray Klune, his production manager, Selznick… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on April 15, 2009 at 2:13pm — No Comments

Gratis Report-Fundgrube der aktuellen digitalen Produkten

»Der DIGIbux-Report«

Die aktuellen 10 DIGIbux-Bestseller

Platz 1 - NEU - Geld verdienen durch das Verschenken von eBooks!

Einmaliges und brandneues

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Added by Michael Volkmann on April 9, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments

David Selznick, Nazi Art and Amazon

Let’s Go to the Movies Fifty thousand dollars: The asking price was staggering in 1935. By the age of 33 David Selznick had produced such films as King Kong, Dinner at Eight and a Tale of two Cities at RKO prior to heading his own production unit at MGM. In 1935 he formed his own independent company Selznick International Pictures. Katharine (Kay) Brown a story editor he had known at RKO was one of the first people Selznick hired to work for his new studio. Ms. Brown would work in New Yo… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on January 21, 2009 at 3:59pm — No Comments

2008 Wall Street Does it Again

Wall Street Lays an Egg That was the famous Variety headline following the stock market crash in 1929. In 1929 it was quick and final. In 2008 it wasn’t so much a crash as it was exposing an Emperor that had no clothes. It was easy to identify the greedy folks on Wall Street – it’ll take longer to pin down the Washington politicians that let it happen. So you see, things haven’t changed much since the 1930’s when Will Rogers made this observation. ‘We’ve got the best politicians in this… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on December 31, 2008 at 3:44pm — No Comments

Nazi Loot, Next the Belmont and The Keystone Cops

Wednesday May 21, 2008 Nazi-Looted Painting Recovered at Christie's ARTINFO - New York, NY, USA By ARTINFO LONDON—A 17th-century painting looted by Nazis during World War II has been discovered among offerings at Christie's London and will be returned ... Inside: The Goring Collection. In search of Nazi stolen art Intelligence agent Sue Grady interviews Holocaust descendent regarding families lo… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on May 21, 2008 at 6:16pm — No Comments