Well, you know me. Wherever I go I like to deploy my Trained Observer Of The Human Condition skills so … More
Author: FreeGNV
Ron Cunningham is a sometime journalist who used to string words together at the Gainesville Sun before I retired to free lance and blog. If I still had a business card it would read: Ron Cunningham: Trained Observer Of The Human Condition. Because like The Donald, you know, ego.
Blue water perched atop a super volcano
We came to Yellowstone National Park for all the usual reasons. The bison, the elk, Old Faithful, huckleberry ice cream, … More
Never too late for Lake Alice
I wrote this piece for the Gainesville Sun. When UF President Stephen C. O’Connell wanted to build a cross-campus highway … More
Charlie Lane’s revenge
Living well is the best revenge: George Herbert. In his first official hatchet job after his secrecy-draped invocation as President … More
POTUS at the Hipp (and other GNV September theater premiers)
I wrote this piece about GNV September theater premiers for The Sun. Dusty is the pregnant mistress with an embarrassing … More
When the Gainesville 8 survivors came back to GNV
I wrote this piece about the Gainesville 8 50th anniversary reunion for the Gainesville Sun. I’m reprinting it here in … More
Oh the things people say
Funny thing happened to me when I went to the Hipp on Sunday to interview some of the actors in … More
Visual reflections on the Gainesville 8
I spent my weekend communing with the five surviving defendants of the 1972 Gainesville Eight trial. And the hell with … More
The two feds in the broom closet
While I’m elbow deep in this 50-year retrospective of the Gainesville 8 trial, I think it worth revisiting the particularly … More
What difference a half century?
I guess that the government was trying to intimidate us. Vietnam veterans were not the kind of guys you could … More
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