Terry Fox, NYC October 18th
A single dream. A world of hope. Terry Fox died on June 28, 1981 a few weeks shy of his 23rd birthday. He was an athlete, a cancer amputee and a worldwide hero. Master Terrance Stanley Fox was...
Category: Legacies, Legends, Tales
Can’t Say I’ve Ever Been a Jamaican Bobsledder
Can’t say I couldn’t be. Can say I wouldn’t want to be. The first statement, a double negative. The second statement, a double positive. Did you take the time to watch this closing clip...
One Man’s Voice
Before gravel roads Recorded in an interview with my father, Joseph Sworak, April 1979 When the passenger ship SS Frederik VIII left Copenhagen, Denmark on April 4, 1927, the orchards were blooming and spring...
Maj. Edward Collis Watson Jr. and Mrs. Watson
Uncle Eddie and Auntie Tillie . . . . It was 1963 and I so Adored my Uncle Eddie Auntie Tillie was my mother’s youngest sister. She was soft-spoken, someone who loved her Nescafe instant coffee granules, and her...
Emeralds Past in Prose, Poetry and Pictures
This book was originally published in 1980. To find a copy, any copy, much less a copy of it in this pristine condition was phenomenal. I would highly recommend the distributor for so many...
