Hi, I’m Tom Barnes and I’d like to talk
to you about books, stolen art, horses and hurricanes.
And those are just for openers.
If you dig into the archives of my blog
you’ll find stories about my 50 years in Show Business where we talk about
actors, writers, TV, movies, stars and Oscars.
This week in my blog
www.RocktheTower.com
I talk about Tropical Storm Fay and some of my own experiences on the
receiving end of hurricanes.
Hurricanes I saw up close – some too
close.
Now Florida has
had its share of Hurricanes and I have personally witnessed at least five if
you count the one at my birth in Fort Myers. Another I shared with you in my
book The Hurricane Hunters and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle. I lived in
Miami Springs during the late 50’s, and only a stones through from Masters
Field our old Hurricane Hunters base. In 1957 a hurricane hit the Miami area
and caused flooding similar to that churned up by the recent Tropical Storm
Fay. My main recollection of the aftermath of that storm was dressing in my
Delta Flight uniform, rolling up my trousers above the knees, carrying my
flight bag in one hand and shoes in the other then wading out of the yard to
the street.
Doc
Holliday's Road to Tombstone
Who
would ever have thought the legend of Doc Holliday
could be connected in any way to Margaret
Mitchell's Gone With The Wind.
For Excerpt Click
here.
The Hurricane Hunters
World War II is
winding down and Squadron VB-4 OTU-2, based in
Jacksonville, Florida retraining former carrier based
aircrews.
For Excerpt Click
here.
The Goring
Collection
Jacob Meyers is stunned to see his father's
Pissarro-taken by the Nazis in 1945-among the
paintings up for sale at The Old World Auction
House in Manhattan. He questions the manager,
and while he reads a phony provenance, the
Pissarro is withdrawn from sale and mysteriously
disappears. Jacob, head of an intelligence
group, alerts Interpol and joins their ongoing
investigation into the underground world of
stolen art.
For Excerpt Click
here.
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