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Based on the true story of writer and naturalist Joe Hutto, portrayed by wildlife photographer Jeff Palmer, this film chronicles Hutto’s remarkable experience of imprinting wild turkey eggs and raising the hatchlings to adulthood. Deep in the wilds of Florida, Hutto spent each day out and about as a “wild turkey” with his family of chicks — until the day came when he had to let his children grow up and go off on their own. As it turned out, this was harder than he ever imagined. Hutto’...

Stephen M. Kohn is a partner in whistleblower law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Chairman of Board of Directors of National Whistleblower Center, representing whistleblowers since 1984, setting numerous precedents and winning landmark cases on behalf of qui tam, tax fraud and SEC whistleblowers. 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — One day back in 2019, as he often did, Matt Browning was...

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/PRNewswire/ -- "Id rather win a Pulitzer Prize than be President of the United States," John F. Kennedy confided to author Margaret Coit shortly after his...

By Eric Freedman Capital News Service Why is a game warden from Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula traipsing through the wilds of Siberia and Northern Russia during World War I? Because he’s on a secret mission to rescue Tsar Nicholas II, the ill-fated “Emperor of All the Russias,” and his equally doomed family. Perhaps more importantly, who would send a Michigan game warden who speaks no Russia into the chaos of the Russian Civil War? In a new novel, it’s former President Teddy Roose...

Novelist Joseph Heywood is shown. (Joseph Heywood photo) LANSING — Why is a game warden from the western Upper Peninsula traipsing through the wilds of Siberia and Northern Russia during World War I? Because he’s on a secret mission to rescue Tsar Nicholas II, the ill-fated “Emperor of All the Russias,” and his equally doomed family. Perhaps more importantly, who would send a Michigan game warden who speaks no Russian into the chaos of the Russian Civil War? In a Michigan writer’s new...

Photograph by Harvard Public Affairs and Communications The spring of 1933 was a trying time: the depths of the Depression, a new president scrambling to reverse systemic disasters and lift shattered spirits. Sound familiar? During that Commencement week, the Phi Beta Kappa Orator was Connecticut governor Wilbur Cross—he of the eponymous parkway, and a thorough Yalie. In Connecticut Yankee, his autobiography, he called the invitation the “most signal honor in my literary career.” Taking ...

Massachusetts author Michael Tougias reflects on boyhood ‘misadventures’ Updated Mar 14, 2021; For Mendon author Michael J. Tougias, boyhood in the 1960s and ’70s was a time for exploration and mischief, a time when he found more than his share of misadventures in the woods and on the water — some life-threatening but others innocently hilarious. “Up until age 12 many of these adventures were along the Connecticut River in an area we called The Meadows and is now known as The Fanny S...