Today would have marked my grandfather’s 103rd birthday. Three years ago, we celebrated what would have been his 100th birthday with a magical 24-hour global social experiment! Here was the result by the way… Nothing quite as grand today. However, in a...
Jan Thompson, Professor of Radio-Television at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the producer of a new feature-length documentary, “Never The Same: The Prisoner of War Experience,” which is going to premiere this Saturday (April 6) in Chicago, at the Gene...
This week in 1938 (August 22), Hollywood’s most famous dancing duo, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, were featured on the cover of Life magazine. With the US still in the grips of the Great Depression and with war heating up in Europe, Astaire and Rogers were...
An idea, a cause & Facebook On March 21st, 2011, I celebrated with 70 other people around the world what would have been my grandfather’s 100th birthday. Although my grandfather, after whom I was named, was killed December 15, 1944, I wanted to pay tribute...
PERSONAL LETTER TO READERS OF MINTER DIALOGUE Dear readers, I am asking you to join in a 5-minute social experiment. It is for a good cause, I believe you will agree. Minter and his wife, Lisa, in New York (c 1938) In just over a week, on March 21st 2011, it will be...
On January 20th, 2009, while flying back from Las Vegas after having watched the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, I watched the film “Salute,” a documentary of the Australian, Peter Norman (1942-2006). Norma was the “other” man on the...
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