We came to Yellowstone National Park for all the usual reasons. The bison, the elk, Old Faithful, huckleberry ice cream,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Where the art meets the asphalt
Cities coast-to-coast are increasingly turning to arts-driven street redesigns—think colorful crosswalks, intersection murals and painted pedestrian plazas—to quickly improve city…
