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/PRNewswire/ -- "I'd 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 Roosevelt who dispatches game warden Lute Bapcat on the dangerous assignment – at the behest of future ...
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 novel, it’s former President Teddy Roosevelt who dispatches game warden Lute Bapcat on the danger...
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 as his cue Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous “American Scholar” address, Cross told his audience ...
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 Stebbins Wildlife Refuge in Longmeadow,” he said. In his teenage years he spent more and more outdo...