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Child of the Sixties
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Fairfax County Cop Watch
FBI's Time Line of the Boston Mob
Great Photography
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Roger Touhy, gangster
The myth of the Hollywood Blacklist
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Why this blog is here.

I am largely self-educated, and this blog is continuation of that educated. I have an MFA, but that doesn’t have much to do with an education, not the kind I’m talking about. An advanced degree means I am able to follow instruction.

Never ending self-education means I adore knowledge and enlightenment of both the ordinary and the odd and that’s what this blog is about. It is by me, written for my benefit. You are more than welcomed to drop by as often and for as long as your heart desires.

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I'm glad to hear you're making a documentary, television show, film etc. There's no way to back into this nicely so, I don't want to be in your production. Thank you so much. JOHN

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John William Tuohy

I was born and raised in Connecticut and now live in rural West Virginia with my wife, Mary, and my dog Eli.

I hold an AA and MA in literature and an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. I spent most of my career as a political consultant and hated every living second of it.

I am produced and award-winning playwright. (Cyberdate, The Hannigans of Beverly, etc.)

I am the author of 12 books on traditional organized crime, an autobiography (No Time to Say Goodbye) two books of short stories (Short Stories from a Small Town, Washington Behind the Monuments) a novella (Imago Summer, 1971) and several books on Connecticut history. I proud to be the historian of Ansonia Connecticut. I sit on the board of Mt. St. John's School.

I occasionally and reluctantly work as an editor but only when I need money to travel.

I am an accomplished amateur photographer, a frustrated painter and not a half-bad gardener and I cook. I collect coins, stamps and political memorabilia. I love film so much that I built a large theater in my home. (I also wrote "On the Waterfront: the Making of a Great Amercian film")

PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ME REGARDING QUESTIONS ON ORGANIZED CRIME

Please do not contact me regarding questions on organized crime. I will not respond. Thank you.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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This about sums it up

“But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked” Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

That's Okay

Some savage.............

"Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses."

Photographs I've taken (Click on me)

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”

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“Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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Organized Crime

Open a vein

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” Walter Welles

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Detail makes the difference

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors. Rhys Alexander

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