FDR to the American people after the attack on Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941 a date which will live in … More
Author: FreeGNV
The night GNV painted the sky
Listen, I’m not gonna lie to you. It’s been an armpit of a year. I mean, when you live in … More
Once upon a time at the University of Florida
I wonder what Parker Small would have thought of Joseph A. Lapado’s sweetheart deal with the University of Florida? Not … More
The autoAmerican (anonymous) way of death
News of little note Gainesville Sun, 4-20-24 Two people are dead and two were injured early Saturday morning after a … More
The once and future GRU fiasco
A former neighbor of mine had been an attorney for GRU. Once, a long, long, long time ago, I asked … More
What’s that smell? It’s not money
One of my favorite Claude Kirk stories is that time he went to the paper mill town of Perry and … More
Time to rescue the Matheson House…again
I wrote this piece for The Gainesville Sun. Sarah Matheson would have lost her home to fire if not for … More
The new ‘history guy’ in town
How GNV is Salvatore Cumella? Well, he wasn’t born and raised here. But neither is Cumella a stranger in this … More
Bob Karp’s GNV legacy
Whenever I saw Bob Karp moving around GNV – and that was frequently – he was either on a bicycle, … More
On second thought
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold – William Butler Yeats In retrospect I should have known. That ‘Real Americans’ … More
