PORT TOWN SIGNING

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July 29, 2015

We finished writing Port Town on Halloween of last year, but there is a huge difference between completing a manuscript and holding the finished product in your hand. The editing and design folks at the Port of Long Beach did an incredible job of putting together the commemorative copy of the book with leatherette cover and copper-gilded pages. We spent a recent afternoon signing the books for special presentations. The book – Port Town, How the People of Long Beach Built, Defended, and Profited from Their Harbor – is available in both printed soft-cover on Amazon.com for $10.70 and in digital format for $1.99. It is free for download on iTunes. A limited number of the commemorative copies will be available for sale at the Long Beach Historic Society in August.

News

May 28, 2020

Peter the Dog

This is a tale from down-under about a loyal dog named Peter, who died, was buried, then dug back up, skinned, stuffed, and used as evidence to convict his master of murder. The master was convicted in 1953, and died in 1987, but his dog lives on – sort of – as an exhibit in Queensland Police Museum Read More HERE

The War on Bats

Bats are getting a bad rap nowadays from humans, who are more than anxious to exterminate them at every opportunity. But some scientist say, we should learn their secrets about how they live with viruses that kill other species. Read More HERE

Cancer Sniffing Dogs

We can’t pass up an opportunity to point out how cool dogs are and how they are now being used to help doctors sniff out ovarian cancer in its early stages. This video explains how doctors are using computers to figure out how dogs do it with their noses. See Video HERE

April 2, 2020

Hoping For Better Tomorrow

Pal and Blogsteress Robin Coyle makes some optimistic predictions about how the current Corona Virus lock-down may change us for the better. I’m an old grump and a little more cynical than Mrs. Coyle, but I think she is right about some things and I hope she is about others. Read More HERE.

April 1, 2020

London Bridge

The story of Robert Paxton McCulloch, who bought an historic stone bridge in London, put in on ships in pieces, sent the pieces to the Port of Long Beach and reassembled the bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona. Fascinating tale of entrepreneurship, vision, and free enterprise. Read More HERE.

March 30, 2020

Phineas Gage

More than 170 years after his accident, scientists and researchers are still talking about the strange case of Phineas Gage and trying to separate fact from fiction. Read More HERE.

March 13, 2020

Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin came up with the concept of The Hedgehog and the Fox, but the book by the same name is mostly about War and Peace author Lev Tolstoy. If you’re a fan of Berlin or have an interest in Russian literature you may like it. Read More HERE

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