Thanks to a choice George Washington once made to locate his headquarters there, Morristown, New Jersey, is far more widely associated with the American Revolution than the Civil War. Still, about sixty members of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table showed up the at Frelinghuysen Arboretum (a magnificent estate that appears to have been about …
Last night the Push the Cush tour visited the West Point chapter of the Company of Military Historians, at the West Point Museum. Thanks for the hospitality–I very much enjoyed meeting everyone, and telling Will Cushing‘s story. Thanks particularly to Paul Martin, for recommending me. At the far right of this picture, one can …
I remember years ago standing at the counter at Borders in White Plains, and seeing a flyer for an event called Spoken Interludes, where writers would come and read from the latest work. I always thought that being asked to participate would hit the heights. Well, last night, at the Riverfront in Hastings-on-Hudson, the dream …
It’s becoming clear that the internet is taking on the role of the catalog of America’s collective attic. Cruising around last night, I found this item from a 2011 sponsored by Cowan’s auction house: a second national Confederate flag, approximately 4.5 feet by 10 feet. Accompanying the flag was a notarized letter of provenance dated …
My article on Heidi Klum is the cover story of the April issue of Success. I enjoyed talking to her–she listened to the questions, gave thoughtful and original answers. The fashion photographer Rankin had a good perspective on why she is successful. “Heidi is just super, super smart. If you come in with a very …
The internet is full of the most extraordinary treasures. Here is an extraordinary photograph, taken in Germany in 1919, showing a young communist a moment before his execution. Such poise! Such defiance! Amazing.
Neither Ginny nor I are prone to tout our own abilities, but there are some things we can do, and that’s all there is to it. As it happens, one of them is sitting. Like Will Sonnet, the old TV character played by Walter Brennan put it. “No brag, just fact.” Not that we won’t pee …
I had a great time on Sunday speaking about Commander Will at the Scarsdale Library. We had a terrific crowd, very attentive and receptive. Many thanks to Claudette Gaffney for arranging the event and publicizing, and to her staff for the thoughtful decorations and refreshments. It was great fun–I couldn’t think of a better way …
Here is the talk I gave at the Naval Academy.
I was seriously chuffed, as my English friends say, to be invited to talk about Will Cushing at my alma mater, La Salle University in Philadelphia last Thursday. When I was an undergraduate there, it was a mere college plopped onto three street corners; now it a big sprawling plant, with something like 10,000 students. …