Austin
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- Ambitious Enterprises Ally Peltier is an excellent editor/consultant for your writers looking for professional guidance.
- Baseball Panoramic Rob Noel’s great site takes you on virtual tours of MLB and historic ballparks
- David Stinson's author blog Please visit my buddy and fellow author David Stinson’s site. He has a real eye for baseball’s past; in fact, he sees it!
- Deadball Baseball Based on David Stinson’s novel, Deadball: A Metaphysical Baseball Novel
- Off the Beaten Basepaths & other videos OTBB takes you to baseball treasures that are little known, underappreciated, or simply off the beaten basepaths! Subscribe now through Youtube so you don’t miss an episode.
- Places We Have Played Album My non-genetic twin, Al Smith, and I like to play in as many interesting ballparks, big and small, as we can find. Here’s our “collection.”
- Seamheads Best baseball blog on the ‘Net!
- Summer Game Books The website of my publisher. (Hey, it felt good to write that!)
- The Official Webpage for Boots Poffenberger: Hurler, Hero, Hell-Raiser Visit the Summer Game Books page for my biography of Boots Poffenberger. Order from there and view the book trailer (to be posted soon!)
- Winchester Book Gallery A wonderful independent book store that is a fun place to shop in the Old Town Mall in Winchester. Christine and her staff are just plain nice people!
- Your Little Windmill My younger daughter, Sarah, has started a blog about her journey through love and Life. Well-written and insightful, and I’m saying that as a writer and not as her dad.
Category Archives: World War II
Princess Aloha, the Refugee from Waikiki
It’s always fun to read the ads in old newspapers, but one in particular that I came across recently really caught my attention. My friend Pat Wishart invited me to her home this past summer to look at some old … Continue reading
Life Magazine Loving the Lindy: August 23, 1943
Judging from the movies made during World War II, one would think that every service man and woman was an expert swing dancer, except, of course, for the goofy side-kick who was always stepping on the feet of the leading … Continue reading
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Tagged dancing in WW II, Life Magazine Lindy Hop issue, Lindy Hop, swing dancing
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War Music About Hope and Home
Music plays an important role in The Secret of Their Midnight Tears and indeed, perhaps no other type of music is associated with a particular era more than swing is with World War II. The swing era, which had its … Continue reading
What’s In the News: June, 1943
Recently, I wrote about the necessity to include only accurate details when writing fiction. That post detailed my quest for accurate information regarding tomato varieties that might have been planted during World War II. Even after publishing The Secret of … Continue reading
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