2012: Let's talk a little tango with Georgina & Oscar plus Leslie Eastman

Guests: Leslie Eastman joined me in 2012 for a chat with Georgina Vargas and Oscar Mandagaran.    They are a lovely tango couple from Argentina. 

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A show from 2013: Cuba with Brian Lloyd French,author

A show from 2013: Cuba with Brian Lloyd French,author..... #BlogTalkRadio - https://t.co/OYyBhvXewy

US Civil War: The battle of Antietam with Barry Jacobsen

A podcast from 2013...........Th US Civil War...... 

The battle of Antietam with Barry Jacobsen...........

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April 2013: The story behind "Cubanos in Wisconsin"

 

"Cubanos in Wisconsin" was published this week in 2013.  It is a book that I wrote over the last couple of years.  Most of all, it is a family story:

"The book relates our family story, from our early innocent days in Cuba, to the moment that Castro came in, to the Bay of Pigs, Missile Crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and our decision to leave Cuba.

You will learn about our family, i.e. my parents, my brother, and our little sister. This is a family story, from the crazy things that boys do to the very serious issues that my parents faced to all of the nice people who helped us along the way."

Yesterday, I shared some of these ideas and thoughts on the radio.  Click here for the radio show:



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Cuban American stories with Fernando Hernandez, author of "The Cubans..."

Cuban American stories with Fernando Hernandez, author of "The Cubans..."......

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"When worlds collide" a movie from 1951

We are living through some interesting times, from horrific death totals to people predicting that the worst is yet to come.   

It’s enough to make you turn on the TV and watch a crazy movie about worlds colliding.

What would you do if the end of the world was coming?   In this movie, the end is a star that will soon hit the earth and destroy mankind.  

As you can imagine, they build a flying version of The Ark.   After that, they loaded up with food and supplies and try to save as many people as possible.

Do they succeed?    I won’t tell you but the The New York Times review from its day is interesting:   

After all preparations and a brief but horrendous display of terrestrial upheavals as the satellite planet brushes by—shown in “earth-shaking” Technicolor, which is the most lately advertised kind—the actual departure of the rocket and its arrival on a new and frozen world are largely anticlimactic.
Except for a rustle of applause to salute a perfect pancake landing, the drowsy audience at the Globe, where the film opened yesterday, showed slight interest.   It appeared skeptical and even bored.  Mr. Pal barely gets us out there, but this time he doesn’t bring us back.

Well, I am not so harsh.   I did find the movie interesting but would not buy it or go out of my way to watch it again.    

So wait until it shows up in your free retro channel!

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We remember Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1843-1933)

   
Elizabeth Bacon was born in Michigan on this day in 1843.     She died in 1933.

Her contemporaries  remember Elizabeth as a talented, intelligent, and beautiful woman.   Elizabeth graduated as valedictorian from the Young Ladies’ Seminary and Collegiate Institute in Monroe, Michigan. 

Shortly after, she met George Custer and the couple was married in 1864.    

After her husband's dramatic death in 1876, Elizabeth set out to write about him and the West.   At first, she was treated as an apologist for her controversial husband but over time she earned much respect.

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