You can listen here. A review of her book will be forthcoming in this space.
Category: Breaking News
Hello, Sam — We’ve Been Looking for You
We’d been looking for Sam for nine years — he was the only Blonger whose final resting place had not been determined. But apparently we weren’t looking nearly hard enough. Turns out this photo has been on the Find-a-Grave web site for the last three years, thanks to researcher Scotti McCarthy. For some reason (that […]
Amy Reading on Focus 580
Amy Reading, whose new book “The Mark Inside” has been the subject of several posts here, will be interviewed on Illinois Public Radio tomorrow (Wednesday, April 25). If you happen to live in central Illinois like we do, you can listen live on WILL, AM 580. Elsewhere, you can listen in almost real time to […]
The Mark Inside on WILL
Sounds like Amy Reading will be doing another interview about The Mark Inside, this time in our old stomping ground, Urbana, on WILL-AM, the local NPR affiliate. Listen in on April 25th, or check it out afterward on the net. Amy says her recent interview on NPR’s Saturday Edition was much longer than what was broadcast, […]
Amy Reading on NPR
Amy more than held her own with Scott Simon last Saturday. You can listen in here: http://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/149148112/the-big-con-if-you-cant-avoid-it-avenge-it True, she didn’t get around to Lou (it was only a seven minute segment), but we forgive her. Great job, Amy! We’ll have more to say on her book, The Mark Inside, soon.
The Mark Inside
Looks like Lou will be coming soon to an NPR station near you. Author Amy Reading will be on Weekend Edition with Scott Simon this coming Saturday, March 24th, to talk about her new book The Mark Inside (Random House Digital, Inc.). For what it’s worth, she will also be on a Denver noontime TV news […]
Killer Kate Blonger Apprehended at Last!
Killed By a Woman Back in 2003, one of the very first items we found when we began searching the Internet was an article about a prostitute by the name of Kitty Blonger. On February 22, 1888, in the mining town of Peach Springs, AT, Kitty was arrested for the murder of blacksmith Charles Hill. […]
Joe Finally Shows His Face
Well, new information has been scant in recent months, but yesterday Scott turned on the spigot. Several new items from genealogybank.com are now in the pipe, and one in particular that solves a longstanding mystery. But first, since we were just talking about him behind his back, let’s briefly get back to Little Big Joe […]
Hello Twenty-First Century
We’ve finally made the obvious move and created an actual blog. Please subscribe, so you’ll know that something new has been posted! All new information will appear here. Just for the record, though our updates have been few and far between of late, our work continues. and — most importantly — we’ve been doing some […]