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Great camera!
We bought this camera to replace our aging 5 MP camera. My shooting ability is an amateur. This camera is for me to look I know what I’m doing. If there is a simple point-and-shoot that you want… more →
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Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
wrote 19 hours ago: The first book by ToM’s own Alex Cummings, Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking o … more →
The Great Gatsby (2013) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): So it beats on....
wrote 5 days ago: Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” is a gorgeous but ultimately disappointing adaptation which exces … more →
YouTube is your friend, not your enemy
wrote 3 weeks ago: “We are against YouTube. We don’t like it.” Those words were uttered by a musician … more →
Bootlegging in South Dakota, 1929
wrote 4 weeks ago: In a study of South Dakota Congregationalist churches, Jesse Fenn Perrin tried to pinpoint, among ot … more →
Prohibition’s Legend: Enoch “Nucky” Johnson
wrote 4 weeks ago: To many people in the 1920’s, Enoch “Nucky” Johnson was the man who ran Atlantic City with a velvet … more →
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
wrote 1 month ago: If you’re the kind of person who enjoys getting goose bumps from tales of obsession and noir then I … more →
NaPoWriMo Day Nine
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wrote 1 month ago: Vermeer Flapper 19 (Photo credit: Sweet Carolina Photography) Not With That Brawd “I ain’t doin’ bus … more →
Protection Money Collected is Charge
wrote 1 month ago: The Mediator Omaha, Nebraska, August 1, 1919 Two Officers Said to Have Received $180 Monthly from Tw … more →
One Nation?
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wrote 2 months ago: One of the oddest features of the transition from apartheid to democracy was the slew of beer advert … more →
The Lights of New York (1928)
wrote 2 months ago: With the success of ‘The Jazz Singer’ a year earlier Warner Brother’s pressed ahea … more →
"Fightin' Charley" Bishop (1874-1948), Ransom Bishop (1913-1985) and the legend of the Long Island Iced Tea
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wrote 2 months ago: My great-great grandfather was Charles Scott “Charley” Bishop, who was born in Scott Cou … more →
Daytona 500: Your Free Pass to NASCAR History 101
wrote 2 months ago: Wooooow… What exactly is Daytona 500 and NASCAR all about, anyways? As a born-raised-and-curre … more →
Valentine's Day 2013
wrote 3 months ago: This Valentine’s Day we celebrated by having dinner at a speakeasy called Ciro’s in Hyde … more →
Taking real life and blending memories into a story… by S. M. Senden
wrote 3 months ago: Taking real life stories/incidences and blending them into a story… People often ask ‘Where do you g … more →
Reading and research
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wrote 3 months ago: I am now at the point in my book where my two characters have crossed the Atlantic and enter prohibi … more →
Lawless review
wrote 3 months ago: When I saw that Lawless and Gangster Squad were coming out that they were two similar films from two … more →
I'll Drink To That ...
wrote 3 months ago: Last week I noticed a lot of traffic on my site directed to the bus related items (over there on the … more →
A Brief History of Beer in the US
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wrote 4 months ago: Derek Thompson of The Atlantic recently wrote about the evolving drinking habits of Americans. We ar … more →
This Day in History: January 16th
wrote 4 months ago: In 1919, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified and becomes law, ushering in the Prohibi … more →
