Bøger af William Russo

A timeless tale of Nature unfolds among the small denizens of Mill Circle.In this sanctuary far from the 21st century you will find the same activities that have gone on for centuries-long before people came as witnesses and destroyed the Yellow Spring. Here the squirrels, porcupine, hawks, turkeys, and geese, live out their instinctive lives, season upon season. Their conflicts and resolutions are documented in these short, poetic metaphors of a struggle small and unobtrusive, humorous and pathetic at haunting Mill Circle.Originally written for friends and neighbors as a gift, it is now available to all.

After the long national nightmare for Patriots fans over Deflate-gate, the New England Patriots began their annual quest for greatness-or at least a Super Bowl victory. Along the way this season have been the usual roadblocks and blockheads, including the NFL itself with their comedy team of referees and pompous media sycophants.In another barrage of standup comedy, the included humor monologues for this season feature wit, parody, whimsy, irony, folly, and satire with all the insight of a groundhog in February. Forget the scores. Here are the stories you want to remember and re-tell from your barstool.

A cluster of unusual geographic details is at the basis of the life and death of one Titanic victim. Here, author William Russo uses his biographical and historical knowledge of Richard Frazar White to detail how all those he touched on Titanic--and in death--share some strange connections, via Earth grids and other Ley Lines. Paranormal meets Quantum Physics and History in this unusual look at the Titanic tragedy. Includes discussion of geo-magnetic solar flares on radio communications and compasses.

An unusual and original take on Billy the Kid, which provides the perspective of Territorial Governor Lew Wallace on a young man with whom he shares much sympathy. Another element of the times was the "Bone Rush," as scavengers and bone hunters tried to find fossils to sell to the highest bidder. Into this mix comes a mysterious professor of antiquities named Mal Tempo.

A paranormal history of Titanic lore on Mill Circle from a Winchendon Springs resident! Two victims of Titanic were born and lived in Winchendon Springs, and their spirits may still remain there. From Dr. William Russo comes a series of supernatural incidents, all true, of living in a haunted house. Long-time professor at Curry College, Dr. Russo now offers classes on Titanic lore and history at Keene State College in New Hampshire and lectures in the area on the topic. He lives on the property once owned by Richard White and his family.

Mill Circle may be the most haunted street in New England.Resident and author Dr. William Russo takes you behind the scenes of his neighborhood to tell you the fascinating tales behind so many hauntings at his home and adjacent houses. From a brutal murder in the 1800s to the death of two residents in 1912 on the Titanic, Mill Circle has more than its share of paranormal activity. Step by step, you will follow the trails of ghosts from their lost Virtuous Spring to the demolished mansion buried in its own cellar.Prepare for a journey that traces ghost stories and strange events to real people and tragedy.Introduction by SPI lead investigator Sue Allen.

MURDER AT MILL CIRCLE is a shocking tale about a haunted neighborhood.Crime, passion, murder, and literary celebrities like Henry David Thoreau, provide a backdrop to the deaths of residents in a small New England neighborhood during early 19th century and the mineral spring at the epicenter of trouble.Biography and history merge in this true story.Another in a series of books about Mill Circle at Winchendon Springs by Dr. William Russo, resident.

Richard Frazar White lived in Winchendon Springs, Massachusetts, went to Cambridge High & Latin, and died on the Titanic. A plaque to his memory was placed at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts, in the 1950s.Dr. William Russo lives in Winchendon Springs, went to Cambridge High & Latin, and lives with the ghost of Richard and his cat. He taught at Curry College in Milton, in the classroom where he found Richard's plaque thirty years before meeting his ghost.

A group of researchers hold a seance, or remote viewing experience, to contact Titanic victims who once lived in the house where the ghost hunt occurs! They end up on the Titanic for one hour! Here is their story!

Now you can follow the entire season, month by month, through humorous essays, written as events unfolded, which reveal the root causes as the 2011 Red Sox folded.The 2011 season for the Boston Red Sox began with great optimism, peaked with confidence, and collapsed with a great thud.The Red Sox pieces could never be put together again once Theo Epstein's Humpty Dumpty team fell off its perch. These essays about the hullabaloo over the eggshell catastrophe serve as a whimsical autopsy.William Russo traces the team from its spring training, through the rough start, to midseason recovery, to the inevitable final game loss, hanging by the thinnest thread, only to lose and to watch Tampa Bay come back from a 7 run deficit to win their game.This book does NOT discuss games to analyze the Sox, but looks at the stars to determine the truth. Red Sox stars did not shine in 2011, with one or two exceptions.Collecting his essays from MTR Media and Bleacher Report websites, Russo humorously follows the chronology of the decline and fall as it happens off the field.Starting with optimistic spring training where some thought the team would end up with 100 victories, each month of the season is concurrent to the events. Each of the major and minor events of the season is delineated with surgical wit, from visits in Anaheim with Tom Brady to the glorious success of Jacoby Ellsbury, and the vainglorious collapse in September.Yet, the seeds of destruction were there, and this author-cum-coroner saw them unfolding.The events are presented with the humor that draws between baseball and classic literature. Tales of the season may live as part of the folklore of Sox stories for generations to come. Long time professor of sports literature and writing at a college outside Boston, Dr. William Russo provides readers over 100 anecdotal essays, month-by-month, tongue-in-cheek, and with bilious humor. If you enjoyed Russo's scathing humor in his works like Sex, Drugs, Sports and Whimsy, volume 1 and 2 as well as Rajon Rondo Superstar, you will enjoy reading and re-reading his take on tales, like Norse sagas, that become instant additions to the pantheon of Red Sox legends.This coroner's report is filled with bloody cynicism, brain-dead corpses, and the always-entertaining Red Sox players finding out that being a zombie isn't any fun.

Covering most of seven seasons, we have gathered the best of our pieces from RAJON RONDO: SUPERSTAR, RONDO & THE GREEN NEBULA, and RONDO IN THE STAR CHAMBER.This may be the most definitive and controversial look at Rondo's tenure with the Boston Celtics. The seasons were tumultuous and not without weirdness. In our comedic insights, we chronicle every twist and turn from winning a banner with the Big Three to the injury-prone rebuilding and his feuds with players and press.Rondo may be gone, but he will never be forgotten. And, now you can always recapture his amazing moments with the Celtics by reading these time capsules, written as they happened, collected annually, and presented with cockeyed optimism every month of Rondo's time in Boston.

Follow the Patriots, month by month through the overachieving and ultimately disappointing 2013 season. With an emphasis on humorous tales of the players and situations, this book goes to the point that Emperor Belichick wears no clothes. Forget the weekly scores! These are the stories that you will always remember and never want to forget about Brady, Gronk, Edelman, Wilfork, and even Aaron Hernandez.

The second collection of humorous sports essays by William Russo continues his assault on Boston sports figures from baseball, basketball, and football. With scathing wit and irony, no sports vanity or deadly sin is spared.

From the Blogs of Ossurworld, here is another volume of insouciant reviews of movie and TV that streams up and down your screen.

Long Time Ago Books presents its annual humor collection of dark satire, biting irony, bland whimsy, and cruel parody for 2017.

LONG TIME AGO BOOKSA timeless tale of Nature unfolds among the small denizens of Mill Circle in Winchendon Springs.New adventures and more lurid tales of survival of fit and unfit emerge at the place where animals could partake of the Yellow Spring long ago, but where now spring water has dried up. You might call these tales of Old Mill Circle gruesome, or a version of New England grotesque. In its own cruel and harsh way, Nature torments a squirrel trying to cross electrical wires, but instead meets his Rubicon. A small frog plays dice with his life --the die say snake eyes. A hairy woodpecker sees the false berries of decoration and finds himself lured like a sailor by a siren. Hawks dispatch squirrels and chipmunks, leaving only small dogs for their dinner. And, birds find homes elsewhere as the 21st century puts its eerie mark on Old Mill Circle.

Are you always bothered by the "Based on a True Story" on the screen when you watch a movie? This book looks at both fictionalized and nonfictionalized films to see whether one is better than the other, and whether documentaries are actually based on the truth.Collected from a year of observation, the author has singled out a number of documentaries and docudramas viewed through streaming download, on cable, and through popular movie rental companies. The author intends to review only movies worth recommending and does not mean to tell you what to watch.

In his fourth book on the subject of John Wilkes Booth, Russo updates and edits his previous work since its first writing, over 25 years ago. This latest effort looks at the development of Booth's character as an actor and political fanatic. Then, he presents 25 movies, television shows, and documentaries, that have depicted Booth in different ways, including Booth's purported post-mortem appearances.

Whether sports shall turn out to be heroic in our lives, or whether that station will be held by any other endeavor, these pages must show. To begin our sports fanaticism with the beginning of 2012, we record that we can hardly wait for the fetid events of 2011 to fade away.At twelve o'clock on January 1st, we may remark that a new clock will start on the Sports Circus Maximus.In consideration of the near pleasantries we have catalogued in this volume, we may cry over spilled milk, or we could notice the smell coming from the fireplace indicates a rally squirrel fell down the chimney after Santa Claus departed. None of these is as pungent as the aroma that remains from the ending of 2011.A few unlucky fans in Boston sports still smell the stench of fried chicken and spilled beer. Sports fans are generally destined to be unlucky in life. One's favorite team rarely wins the championship. And second, we have been privileged and cursed to see the hobgoblins and ghosts attached to the venal and vain athletes in all sports. Our sports fanaticism is instructive at worst. We are taught by drop-outs of high culture.This year provided more rot and garbage than usual, ranging from lockouts in two major sports, sex abuse scandals at two major universities, and endless examples of venal sin from major athletes, including an NFL player doubling as a drug kingpin in Chicago, and the Antichrist seemed to be everywhere on the playing field.We have been reduced to the pathetic cry of, "Wait till next year!"No one could have predicted how eventful the year has been. Our values may have been verified by the result, but our sports heroes have been falsified by history.We have been exposed to exposing athletes, more than can be found after an oil spill or last call at the saloon. Monta Ellis, Michael Vick, and Shaun White have taken 'l' out with their pubic hairs.As we wait for the New Year and the clock to strike twelve, providing us with new hope, we may also wonder if a Houston Asteroid could be in our American League future.

Reviews and critiques of movie and TV, including complete seasonal episodes of ENDEAVOUR, LOST GOLD OF WW2, WHO KILLED JEFFREY EPSTEIN, as well as recent and classic movies.

Based on Dr. William Russo's popular film courses for decades, this collection of selected reviews gives readers an idea of unusual and forgotten music movies and TV they ought to see.

Let's face it. There are a thousand and one movie critics out there, telling you what movie to watch. Included in this compilation are films we viewed in 2016 and 2017, but not necessarily made during those years. It's just when we happened to see them, often for a second or third time when they're good as gold, and some we never hope to see again.

The final volume of the Mill Circle chronicles ends with tales about psychics, the peddler's ghost, and archaeological searches of the street. Author William Russo finishes his epic study with paranormal and historical evidence about the most unusual street he lives on.

TALES OF A TITANIC FAMILY RMS Titanic changed everyone it touched, including the White family of Winchendon, Massachusetts. What happened to Percival and Edith, sons Percy, Jr. and Richard, merely a footnote in hundreds of other books, can now be fully revealed.From misidentified photographs taken aboard Titanic to an auspicious family history of wealth and privilege, the Whites will surprise you.Pictures from the White family archives and unpublished oral histories reveal this American family's trauma wrought by Titanic.Contains dozens of photographs, many never previously published.

This year's reviews present an exciting batch of movies. We have included again this season many streaming TV series that caught our fancy, and a choice number of special TV movies or documentaries.The original goal of this movie review series was to enumerate the movies (shorts, series, specials) that came across Roku, Instant Amazon Video, or Netflix.Sometimes one new movie led us to reconsider an old one, and those lost gems continue to pepper the lists. It's nice to see something missed in the past. Sometimes updated viewing leads to deeper regret and a keener reassessment.

For the first time in 2016, and for the first time in its 200+ year history, the interior of the Great Barn at Mill Circle was photographed and documented.Mill Circle has been a favorite haunt for generations of residents and visitors, but most have only seen the barn from a distance on the outside. Impressive as its exterior is, the inside of the fancy horse stable for wealthy owners remains a time capsule of New England life within layers. Built as a utilitarian barn before 1800, it underwent two major renovations in 1845 and 1965. Today we can at last see the hidden interior, visible only to a handful of residents over two centuries.Included in this book are over 100 photographs, many in color-some never seen by the public. This book offers insights and sights of Mill Circle's barn, the private sanctuary of two important local families-the White's and LeClerc's of Winchendon.Dr. William Russo puts together this collection of history and images, based on his personal view to the historic Mill Circle barn and his experiences as a resident of Mill Circle. A biography of The Great Barn at Mill Circle emerges from these pages.

From the Blogs of Ossurworld comes yet another eclectic collection of movie and TV reviews with the usual deadly humor.

Based on his popular film classes at Curry College, Dr. Russo presents some of his favorite examples of movie sets and settings.

Satiric and comic slices of Belichick, served cold.

We never expected our Patriot diary would be more than another exercise in Tomfoolery.When we began recounting episodes on and off field in the summer of 2016, we had a glimmer of hope that Tom Brady might show his resolve toward the unfair treatment by the NFL and its suspension of him by winning ruthlessly.We never imagined it would end like a Rocky movie.Here is our datebook with high and low burlesque, funny and mean-spirited parody, all the ups and downs of a season of football with a group of disparate athletes moving toward one staggering goal.In a way, this compendium of oddball exploits and commentaries will always return us to the memories of a season begun in adversity and ending in glory.Like any comic book, this tale has superheroes and nasty villains. There is much stuff here of the Patriots with feats of clay. However, the ultimate measure will be chiseled in marble by the memories of fans.Let us start this fairy tale with the immortal words...."Once upon a time in a football galaxy near Foxboro...."