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  • by Jack Durish Ray Bradbury

    Ray and Me. The Bradbury Chronicles

    RAY BRADBURY taught me an important lesson many years ago. If you have something inside of you…

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  • by Jack Durish Mickey Spillane

    Mickey Spillane: From the Gut

    I’M STARTING FROM the wrong end of the book. At least that’s what Mickey Spillane told me. He said…

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  • by Jack Durish counter-writers-block

    The Arrogance of Writing

    Towards the end of my training at Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, a…

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  • by Jack Durish Waiting for Fidel

    The Mistake of Not Learning History

    Twice during the late Nineteenth and mid-Twentieth Centuries, the Cuban people had liberty within…

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  • by Jack Durish The Constitution is signed.

    A Word or Two about OurStory

    Isn’t “Flutterby” more descriptive than “Butterfly?” How about “OurStory” rather than…

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  • by Jack Durish All generations have their circle of friends.

    Circle of Friends

    Birds of a feather really do flock together. I once wrote a guide to local advertising wherein I…

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  • by Jack Durish pbm mariner

    Remembering Martin’s Flying Boats

    THE GLEN L. MARTIN Aircraft Factory disappeared during WWII – from the air – thanks to the…

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  • by Jack Durish Cuban rebel Che Guevara

    Being Honest about Villains

    Many years ago, more than I care to calculate, when my third child was in elementary school, her…

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  • by Jack Durish Fidel Castro featured on Time Magazine

    Dictator in a Confessional

    Dateline Rome – Sources close to the Vatican are reporting that Fidel Castro, who promised Cuban…

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  • by Jack Durish The Tango: One form of Machismo

    Mastering Machismo, And Is It a Good Idea?

    In writing Rebels on the Mountain, I had to come to grips with machismo. To be honest, I have…

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  • by Jack Durish Bob Hope could make us laugh.

    Where Has All The Humor Gone?

    Today’s world is caught up in a new, global revolution rooted in the Middle East. Some see it as a…

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  • by Jack Durish Welcome to Tolchester Beach

    A Sad So Long to a Memory Past

    WITH THE ADVENT of steamship service on the Chesapeake Bay in 1825, citizens of Baltimore began…

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  • by Jack Durish Making their way though Vietnam

    A Mad Dog on the Run

    Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun… Noel Coward purportedly wrote that song…

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  • by Jack Durish pimlicoHistory_race

    The Tip

    Nick sat at the bar across the road from Pimlico Race Track, surrounded by Milt and his coworkers…

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  • by Jack Durish Jack Durish: Author of "Rebels on the Mountain"

    Jack Durish: Beer Run to Victory

    CIVILIZATION COULD NOT have evolved without beer. It’s true. Without beer, man could not have…

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  • by Jack Durish Fidel Castro leading a rally in Cuba

    Revolution in Cuba

    An Interview with Jack Durish, author of Rebels on the Mountain, Part 3. Question:      …

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  • by Jack Durish A defiant Fidel castro

    The Enigma of Fidel Castro

    AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK DURISH, AUTHOR OF REBELS ON THE MOUNTAIN: PART TWO. VG:  Your first…

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  • by Jack Durish ref=sib_dp_kd-1

    An Interview for Rebels on the Mountain

    AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK DURISH, AUTHOR OF REBELS ON THE MOUNTAIN: PART ONE It’s a novel that has…

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  • by Jack Durish Fidel castro is the catylyst character in "Rebels on the Mountain"

    Separating Fact From Fiction

    OMG, I’m no different from a politician or a pundit. I mix fact with fiction. I’m a writer of…

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  • by Jack Durish The flag of Cuba

    Controversy Over the Cuban Embargo

    The United Nations recently condemned the U.S. Embargo of Cuba overwhelmingly, 186 to 2 – the…

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