Walking St. Augustine
Chicago early 1920’s. Street with car and people, U.S.A. Film 90540
Chicago’s Original Gangster Tour
Original Chicago Cocktail: The Hinky Drink:
Hinky Dink might’ve been a teetotaler, but this cocktail ain’t no sissy drink. We start with amber rum that would’ve been right at home in Kenna’s saloon, The Workingman’s Exchange. It gets Hinky Dink-style bite from ginger and lime, smoothed over with silky orgeat. Overproof Jamaican rum floats on top and mixes a little business with pleasure. And we serve the Hinky Drink up in – of course – a short glass.
Era of “Hinky Dink” and “Bathhouse John”
Key West Fox TV
“With all due respect to the folks at Fox, “real” Key West life has been the genesis for several successful movies and at least one (local) soap opera. Tennessee Williams‘ Rose Tattoo and Thelma Strabel’s Reap the Wild Wind
put Key West lives on the silver screen. Both won Academy Awards. Other movies have been filmed here, with directors taking advantage of the electric tropical location and the variety of setting.
Explore KW: Summer 1993
James Bond in Key West
A LITTLE CHURCH NEXT TO TINTAGEL CASTLE
If you’ve been reading my blog for a few years you know that I spent a whole month at a little inn above a couple pubs in Tintagel–northern Cornwall and I was planning on returning with some friends in 2020—which heaven knows why—didn’t work out—
Sunrise at St Materiana’s Church, Tintagel
So what’s so great about Tintagrl? My first choice is
St. Materiana’s Church
It stands along the Coastal Foot path to the Castle The church was built by the Normans and the building continues to be use as an active church to this day—The oldest grave stone is from the 17th century—though there have been gave discovered that goes back to more ancient times—long before the Christians claimed this ridge that looks to the Castle on one side and down on Tintagel on the other. There is an old standing stone in the church yard and a roman directional stone within the church—I have spent several visits there and recommend it as there are few places like this left in the world.
The History Channel: My Favourite Place – Tintagel Castle
Tintagel Castle I am told is much more visited and the town much busier than has been usual when I was there in the past—the castle was on a piece of land that had been made an island when it’s land connection had been torn away in a bad storm in the 17th century. It had been replaced by a set of stairs going down one side, then across a bridge and then up another impressive set of stairs. This was a major effort and limited the people who could do it—However since I have been there last they have put a bridge across the void where the original land line stood and now everybody can get there.
The location has long been said to be King Arthur’s birth place or at least that’s the legend—but the argument was that the castle ruins here are from the same Normans that built the church so that’s just a fairy tale—which made sense except more recently digs on the site have found a home of wealth that dates back to the time that it is estimated that if he does exist, Arthur could have been there.
Tintagel Castle – The Making Of The New Bridge
Making Extracts: Behind The Scenes At Mountain Rose Herbs
What is a herbal extract? Herbal extracts are the medicinal properties of herbs extracted into fluids which act as solvent and preservatives such as grain alcohol/distilled water, vinegar or glycerin. No heat is needed in the extraction, therefore the volatile oils and healing properties are preserved.
What is a Tincture, Glycerite, and Elixir with Deb Soule
THE CHICAGO CRIME SCENES PROJECT : O’Bannion Flower Shop
Hymie Weiss
EXTREMIST BUGS MORAN
The two probable Capone hit men involved in the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre did not live to see another Valentine’s day. The bodies of John Scalise and Albert Anselmi were found in the wee hours of the morning on May 8, 1929 on a lonely road near Hammond, Indiana. They were joined in death by gangster Joseph Giunta. The three men had been severely beaten and then shot to death. It is likely that they had been involved in a plot against Capone. Capone, ever a fanatic baseball fan, had worked them over with a bat before having his gunmen finish the task.
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St Valentines Day Massacre 1967
Megaflood: how Britain became an island
As the glaciers if the last ice age melted, sea levels ere rising sharply and this turned high ground like the Isle of Wright, the Isle of Man and modern Ireland into separate islands. The waters flooded over th land bridge, severing the physical link with England
Great Tales from English History
Robert Lacey
Prehistoric Britain
How about a real cattle Drive in Utah—-a ranch not only utilizes family and friends but they include guests at their dude ranch to get the cattle to their summer grazing area and provide the tourists with an adventure they wouldn’t forget on this episode of PBS’s American Heartland
The Smithsonian is a national institution and their channel is worth watching–I particularly like Secrets:
Viking Murder Mystery deals with a group of pre-Viking warriors in a huge fort—and well armed found on a dig—-obviously murdered and left to die and finally be found many years later on the spot they were murdered. The mystery is intriguing.
Was This Pre-Viking Gathering a Prelude to a Massacre?
Fernandina Beach, a Victorian seaport, is a town that has known smugglers, pirates and mercenaries in it history with a harbor that looks like New England with its trawlers docked side-by-side. Amelia island on which it is situated is on the north coast of Florida above Jacksonville. With in the island’s 13 by 2 mile dimensions are beaches with dunes occasionally reaching a height of 40′ in height. It is a town with multiple holes of golf, many excellent restaurants, several period bed & breakfasts and a large resort that resided on a salt marsh and a beach front.
Downtown Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island in Florida! A Driving Tour at Sunset!
It’s also the home of American beach—and a museum about it—-check out what this is all about here:
Hint: Smithsonian calls the beach:
a haven for African-Americans in the time of Jim Crow
AMERICAN BEACH MUSEUM
Johnny Torrio American gangster
Mobster – Big Jim Colosimo
HISTORY OF | History of Al Capone
Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre
The Terrible Gennas, A Bootleg Liquor Gang From Taylor Street
“Machinegun” Jack McGurn, His Oak Park Nests
And nothing to do with Capone and the Valentine’s Day thing:
The True Story of John Dillinger’s Life and Death
Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle are recruited to track down Jack the Ripper in a novel that is at once a gripping detective story and a witty portrait of two of the most brilliant Victorian minds.
The countdown has begun! Against the real-life backdrop of the US deployment of WMDs in Europe during the escalating Cold War, this dramatically involving and agonizingly graphic film about nuclear holocaust detonated a direct hit into the heartland of America, becoming the most watched TV movie of all time. Starring Jason Robards (The St. Valentines Day Massacre), JoBeth Williams (The Big Chill), Steve Guttenberg (The Boys From Brazil) and John Lithgow (Raising Cain), this controversial, potent drama remains one of the most talked-about programs in history. When Cold War tensions reach the ultimate boiling point, the inhabitants of a small town in Kansas learn – along with the rest of America – that they have less than 30 minutes before 300 Soviet warheads begin to appear overhead! Can anyone survive this ultimate nightmare… or the nuclear winter that is sure to follow? Top-notch direction by Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), from a teleplay by Edward Hume (Two-Minute Warning, 21 Hours at Munich).
Edward Henck House: 398 Freeman St. Longwood, Florida: This house was owned by a founder of Longwood who came to the area in 1878. It was built around 1886 by Josiah Clouser. From 1896 to 1914 Edward Henck owned the house, but lived in New Jersey. He returned to it in 1914 and lived there for the next 16 years until his death.
Longwood, Florida ⭐️🌎 AMERICAN CITIES 🌎⭐️
Walking Tour of Historic St Augustine Florida
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