When You Wish Upon A Star
Long before the moon landing and Woodstock, there was one historically significant event in a small California town that helped shape the...
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Rick Townley
Oct 15, 20153 min read
So There, Take That!
Today, the Twentieth Century Express is moving through a small town, past an abandoned one-story brick building now inhabited only by...
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Rick Townley
Jul 22, 20142 min read
The Second Battle of Marianna
I did some browsing, bought a box full of interesting used books and gave a copy of my book to the owner, Mike Downum, to read while...
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Rick Townley
May 14, 20142 min read
Three words for June grads who want a career in writing.
It has long been an accepted fact in the world of academia that you must publish stuff or disappear from view. Among the learned...
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Rick Townley
Apr 22, 20142 min read
Things that go bump in the night.
“From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!” Early Scottish...
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Rick Townley
May 26, 20133 min read
Memorial Daze
The original intent of Memorial Day, previously called Decoration Day, was to honor soldiers who died in service by marking their graves...
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Rick Townley
Mar 8, 20133 min read
The Backstory: zero tolerance and Pop-Tarts
The real epidemic in America is the rise of stupidity. Political correctness, zero tolerance rules followed to the absurd and ill-advised...
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Rick Townley
Feb 26, 20132 min read
The Backstory: global music sales on the rise
In today’s column I deliberately made only a vague reference to the fact that the quality of music, or lack of it, might have some small...
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Rick Townley
Feb 19, 20132 min read
The Backstory: Microsoft pushes users into cloud services
There are many people far better qualified than me to describe cloud services and how they work, but I like to think at least I have a...
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Rick Townley
Feb 13, 20132 min read
The Backstory: Valentine’s Day, women and shoes
I used to see men sitting in the shoe store, sullen and quiet, looking like they were about to be executed. Most were in fear that their...
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Rick Townley
Feb 12, 20132 min read
The Backstory: 2013 State of the Union Address
It’s getting harder and harder to like a president these days. It used to be that the cream floated to the top, but that is no longer the...
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Rick Townley
Feb 7, 20132 min read
The Backstory: drones, privacy and assassinating Americans
One of the things I find most interesting about drones is that people often report hearing them, but not seeing them. I guess that’s how...
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Rick Townley
Feb 2, 20133 min read
The Backstory: Heavy equipment reportedly moving toward Alabama hostage site
Feb 3, 2013, 8:30 PM CST…Sadly still no change in the hostage situation. Apparently Dykes has decided to go the full distance. Kudos to...
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Rick Townley
Jan 31, 20133 min read
The Backstory: Day four of the hostage situation
2/1/13 Midday: Still no change. Psychologists suggest Sykes had planned for this and is prepared to stay in the bunker a long time....
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Rick Townley
Jan 26, 20132 min read
The Backstory: ALA 2013 Midwinter Conference
I used to attend library conferences back in my publishing days, so I can attest to the fact that when you get them off their home turf...
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Rick Townley
Jan 21, 20131 min read
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
#martinlutherking #holidays #memoriam #mlk #king
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Rick Townley
Jan 17, 20132 min read
The Backstory: The Pew Center poll on armed guards in schools
It seems that every major organization in America has done a public opinion poll in the 24 hours since the President announced his latest...
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Rick Townley
Jan 14, 20132 min read
The Backstory: Florida’s war on pythons
The backstory on today’s column is that the story I told was true. I had a horrible time with snakes the entire time I lived in Florida....
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Rick Townley
Jan 4, 20133 min read
The Backstory: the fiscal cliff crisis as TV drama
Let’s face it, television during holiday seasons is really boring. Even with several hundred channels to choose from, there still seems...
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Rick Townley
Jan 2, 20132 min read
The Backstory: starting the new year by going back in time
I didn’t actually stumble on Huggin’ Molly’s restaurant in Abbeville, I went looking for it on someone’s recommendation. It’s fairly easy...
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