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The Year Florida Forgot How It Does Christmas
Designed by Freepik at https://www.freepik.com/ By Ronnie Blair Christmas in Florida is what you would expect. Air-conditioning systems...
Dec 22, 20244 min read
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My Father and the Day Pearl Harbor Was Attacked
This blog entry about my father, Ellison Blair, is an excerpt from the memoir Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books,...
Dec 7, 20244 min read
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Lessons Learned from the Lives of Others
The book website booklisti.com approached me about creating a recommended reading list of books that, preferably, were at least somewhat...
Nov 30, 20241 min read
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Visitors Return to Yesterday at Beatles Museum
By Ronnie Blair In Dunedin, Florida, up a not so long and winding stairway, you will find Penny Lane: the Ultimate Beatles Museum , which...
Nov 4, 20242 min read
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Space Ghost Goes Trick-or-Treating
An excerpt from the memoir Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books, and Black-and-White TV . By Ronnie Blair In 1966, my...
Oct 20, 20242 min read
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Faster Than a Speeding Adverb
In my latest guest essay for Brevity Blog, I recall those astonishing days when I was a faithful letter writer to comic books. An...
Jun 21, 20241 min read
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ChatGPT Reads 'Eisenhower Babies' and Has Some Thoughts
By Ronnie Blair Artificial intelligence has been in the news a lot over the last couple of years, especially the AI known as ChatGPT....
May 11, 20245 min read
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Obscure Authors, Personal Connections, and the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
By Ronnie Blair The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair always holds treasures, and a year ago on my annual pilgrimage there I uncovered one, a...
Feb 5, 20244 min read
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My Mother, One Century Later
By Ronnie Blair Each morning in the 1960s my mother prepared Hershey’s cocoa for my sister, brother, and me, a ritual she religiously...
Oct 19, 20235 min read
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'Eisenhower Babies' Receives National Recognition
Lake Buena Vista, FL—The 2023 Annual Florida Authors and Publishers Association President’s Book Awards recognized Eisenhower Babies:...
Aug 20, 20232 min read
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How a Hardy Boys Mystery Changed My Life
By Ronnie Blair Authority Magazine recently interviewed me about the book that changed my life and other topics. Below is an excerpt from...
Jun 24, 20233 min read
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Fury, Wild Horse Annie, and a Delayed History Lesson
By Ronnie Blair TV watching can be educational––even 60 years after the fact. My habit of watching the television show Fury on Saturday...
May 21, 20234 min read
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I (Fail To) Capture the Chickens
By Ronnie Blair My family kept chickens in the mid-1960s. They laid eggs in a chicken coop in the barn behind our rental house in...
May 6, 20233 min read
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Discovering 'The Harlan Renaissance' and a Different Take on Appalachian Coal Towns
By Ronnie Blair When I began writing my memoir Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books, and Black-and-White TV, one of my...
Apr 8, 20235 min read
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Peter Pan, Queen Elizabeth, and Other Book Fair Encounters
By Ronnie Blair Step into the annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair in St. Petersburg and you enter a time portal for bibliophiles. On...
Feb 19, 20233 min read
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The Scar, the Barn Loft, and the Batman
By Ronnie Blair On my left knee is a faint scar, put there nearly 60 years ago by Adam West – sort of. He was responsible indirectly...
Jan 7, 20233 min read
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Official Release Day and a Glimpse Inside 'Eisenhower Babies'
With Eisenhower Babies enjoying its official release date on Jan. 3, I thought it appropriate to provide a glimpse inside to give...
Jan 2, 20233 min read
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To the Moon Again
For a moment this past week the 1960s were resurrected as NASA’s Artemis rocket lifted into the Florida skies and headed for the moon....
Nov 19, 20222 min read
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Leaving Harlan Alive
This past week Patty Loveless and Chris Stapleton captivated the audience at the CMA Awards by performing You’ll Never Leave Harlan...
Nov 12, 20222 min read
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The Photo Inside the TV
My mother had no idea when she squinted through her Polaroid instant camera and snapped a black-and-white photo in 1965 that she would be...
Nov 5, 20222 min read
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