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Florida Shorebirds See Breeding Bump After Hurricane Michael

In October 2018, Hurricane Michael and its Category 5 winds inflicted tremendous destruction to Florida, causing an estimated $18.4 billion in damage and an eventual 50 deaths in the state. More than a year later, human communities in the state’s [...]

January 14, 2020 Journalism/Communications, Nature & Wildlife, Travel & Culture

Remembering World War II Veteran Bob Gasche

In 2016, Bob Gasche joked about besting fellow World War II veteran and former President George H.W. Bush. They had both went skydiving in old age, “but he was on his 90th birthday,” Gasche told me in an interview that [...]

December 17, 2019 History, Journalism/Communications, Reflections

Songbirds Guitar Museum in Chattanooga Has World’s Largest Collection of its Kind

Songbirds Guitar Museum — opened in 2017 in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee — has more than 1,700 fretted instruments in its collection, touted as the world’s largest private one specifically of rare and vintage guitars. The collection’s value: more than $200 [...]

August 20, 2019 History, Music & Arts, Photo

Bob Gasche, Vet of Iwo Jima Well-Known for Military and Community Involvement, Dies at 94

Bob Gasche, a Marine corporal who served in World War II, including in the Battle of Iwo Jima, and later in the Korean War, died July 30 at age 94. He was a private in the 5th Marine Division when [...]

August 11, 2019 History, Journalism/Communications, Reflections

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes: 15 Pastoral Excerpts from ‘The Yearling’

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ 1938 classic “The Yearling” tells of the small Baxter family living off land and animal in rural, forested Florida, long before today’s development, comforts, or conveniences. Around them are (mostly) amiable neighbors, the elements, a country doctor, [...]

July 31, 2019 History, Journalism/Communications, Nature & Wildlife

‘Things Are Just Crazy Here’: 20 Revealing Excerpts from Woodward’s ‘Fear: Trump in the White House’

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward used hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources and an abundance of documents in his research for his latest book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” a thorough, critical, often-embarrassing look into the lead up to [...]

July 15, 2019 Journalism/Communications