I wonder what Parker Small would have thought of Joseph A. Lapado’s sweetheart deal with the University of Florida? Not … More
Author: FreeGNV
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
A movable force
It was water more than anything that devastated North Carolina’s western mountains. Delivered by a hurricane force, it fell and … More
Breaking up is so very hard to do
My dearest X. It’s not you, it’s me. Really. I just think the time has come for us to part … More
