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Throw a 1950s Rock ‘N’ Roll Party

Many of my aunts and uncles were teenagers in the 1950s. As a kid, I would be around their teen gatherings at soda shops...

Hiking and Backpacking Movies

There is something fulfilling, exhilarating, and addictive about the physical and mental challenge of hiking and backpacking in natural wilderness forests and mountains. Nothing...

Humphrey Bogart’s Holmby Hills Rat Pack

I have always watched film noir and the Golden Age classic films. Humphrey Bogart has been one of my favorites. There is just something...

Favorite Jane Austen Movies

I believe that Jane Austen is the best English language author of the first half of the 19th Century. She is universally praised and...

Jane Austen and Charles Dickens Theme Party

I always look for interesting ideas about food and parties. The early 19th Century British era has always captivated me and I researched the...

American Cuisine: Appalachian Foods

I grew up proud of my American family with Northern England and Scotland roots. The Woods migrated from England in the 1600s and settled...

My ‘Interview’ With Elmore Leonard

I was a bit anxious, sitting at the bar in Forte a very nice restaurant in Birmingham, Michigan. Elmore ‘Dutch’ Leonard had asked me...

Backpacking Food & Cooking

I grew up camping with my family and would go on camping canoe trips with the Scouts and friends. As an adult, I have continued...

Under the Influence of Kerouac: On the Road Retrospective

On the Road by Jack Kerouac was one of the breakout novels of its time. The book still sees robust annual sales of 120,000...

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