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Bay Weekly Sporting Life ColumnistFor 16 years, Dennis Doyle led a weekly in-print and on-line fishing seminar, enriched by tall fish- and human-tales, for the 50,000 readers of Bay Weekly newspaper. His columns, regular prize-winners in Maryland, D.C., Delaware Press Association competition, kept real-time and armchair anglers connected to the living waters of our great Chesapeake Bay and aware of the diversity and wonder of the Bay's many aquatic citizens.
Fire at the Stymie Club is a retrospective collection of storiesset mainly in St. Louis, in Springfield, Illinois and in Maryland,along the Chesapeake Bay's western shore, where author Sandra OlivettiMartin was co-founder and publisher of a widely read newspaper, BayWeekly. The book includes versions of her prize-winning stories forthat paper.. The title of the books stems from Sandra's girlhood, in St. Louis above a restaurant and supper club operatedby her father, a charming bookmaker, and her mother, the glamorousdaughter of Italian immigrants. Her family's Stymie Club offers anenticing setting for the book's first story with its extralegal doingsand the perfumy sensuality of female clientele and waitresses lookingout for precocious little Sandra.The book also includes features andcolumns written for the flourishing sister independent, Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois, and reflecting the ethos of acapital deeply connected to Abraham Lincoln in an era when women'srights and freedoms took center stage in lawmaking.Journalism continues with memoirs of her life and family into the 19th century.Other memoirs are personal essays of deeper intimacy.
Hell With the Lid Off: Butte, Montana is the lost manuscript of Horace ''Bert'' Smith, who arrived in the West as a teetotaling 21-year-old adventure-seeking reporter. He later went on to publishing successes in New York as part of a salon that included Zane Grey and Upton Sinclair. With his reporter''s eye and access to characters on both sides of the law, Smith chronicles wild times, terrible tragedies and sudden millionaires on ''the richest hill on earth''. His granddaughter, Melissa Smith FitzGerald, discovered the manuscript that Smith was finishing and trying to sell to Hollywood when he died suddenly in 1936.
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