COLUMNS
You can hear the crack of the bat
In one sense, baseball is a game of numbers, numbers involving runs batted in, earned run averages, singles, two-baggers, homers, attendance. My late friend Dave Goldsmith subscribed to Baseball Digest, several baseball newspapers and even flunked out of a college because he spent his entire freshman year memorizing baseball statistics.
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , June 21, 2012
Book Report: Genre readers are going for smut
Extra! Extra! Late breaking news from the publishing industry.
And it’s not good news.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 18, 2012
Book Report: Guess I didn’t know her that well
I was very happy to receive “Walking the Rails,” by Ethel Erickson Radner (available at iUniverse.com; barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com, $13.95 paper; $23.95 hardcover; $3.99 e-book).
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 07, 2012
Guest Column: New St.Croix River bridge -- accepting the challenge to change
The historic Stillwater lift bridge is old. Last July we celebrated its 80th birthday. What is even older than the bridge is the wisdom of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who said that “nothing endures but change.”
By By Daryl Standafer, St. Croix County Board Chair , June 02, 2012
Book Report: Lyrical words tell the tale
Gary Boelhower, a St. Scholastica theology professor, writes on a variety of topics, his first wife, his daughter’s wedding, his gayness, his grandmother “ground down by the hard soil of two failed farms.”
May 31, 2012
Book Report: New book, same old Henry
Ever since I read “The Education of Henry Adams,” I’ve thought of its author, the great-grandson of our second president and grandson of John Quincy Adams, as a sanctimonious little prig.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 24, 2012
Book Report: Even Rough Rider Teddy couldn’t tame NYC
Back in the 1950s adolescents looking for exciting reading about the facts of life, etc., turned to a series of books by muckraking journalists Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 18, 2012
Randy’s Ramblings: There are wild things in North Hudson, too
OpinionThe death of the author of the children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” got me thinking about the wild things in my own neighborhood. I arrived home from church on a recent Sunday to find a turkey perched on the deck railing.
By Randy Hanson , May 18, 2012
Book Report: Have a peek at this American family
The Dale family — Mom, Dad, son Zak, daughter Chloe and Lars the dog — come together for a typical American supper:
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 11, 2012
Some spies never rest; revisit fictional Door County
Tom Nash seemingly has it made. He’s a retired British spy. He lives on the Cote D’Azur, the French Riviera, hobnobs with artists and writers and expatriates like Gerald and Sara Murphy.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 04, 2012
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