Where The Sidewalk Ends

New York Slave Revolt ► Throwback Thursday

We have to go all the way back to 1712, before this country was even a country, for this week’s Throwback Thursday. At the time New York City was merely a small town, in a province of Britain, on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean. The crown colony known as New York (as opposed to old York, of course) was much larger than the current state. It included “all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware ...

Coconut Grove Is Not Out Of The Woods Yet

Lorry Woods had a great smile & a great idea to meet the voters in Coconut Grove. The Not Now Silly Newsroom’s Head Writer will get to it eventually Headly Westerfield, Not ...

Raking Muck in the Big Miami ► Unpacking The Writer

An app that allows me to pretend I’m being sketched on the beach. Hold on, dear readers! It’s that time of the month when I pull back the curtain like Toto ...

The Coconut Grove Playhouse Trojan Horse; Part I

Some of the parking lots described in this post. Background: Looking south towards the E.W.F. Stirrup House, dwarfed by The Monstrosity, aka ...

Packing Up 2014 ► Unpacking The Writer

A billboard erected in my honour will look nothing like this. Howdy to new readers. Old readers know Unpacking The Writer as the monthly post where I pull back the curtain ...

Farce Au Pain ► Chapter Two

The foundations of our new government are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, ...

It’s All Nothing But Words ► Unpacking the Writer

Hello again, dear readers. For newbies: Unpacking the Writer is the monthly series in which I expose some of the wrinkles of being a Writer for Hire. I’m excited about a ...

Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins ► Chapter Three

CLICK to enlarge: Red lines represent streets never built, despite being on original planning maps. I’ve written about Marler Avenue previously (Read Part Two of Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins). ...

The Accidental Tour Guide ► Unpacking The Writer

This will be a short Unpacking The Writer this month. For the uninitiated, Unpacking the Writer is the monthly feature in which I pull back the curtain and share some ...

Unpacking The Writer ► Packing Up the Newsroom

Welcome to another exciting episode of Unpacking the Writer, the monthly column in which I pull back the curtain — Wizard of Oz-like — and expose some of the inner-workings ...

A Tribute to Don Knotts ► Morgantown’s Favourite Son

DATELINE: Morgantown, West Virginia – As part of the 2nd Annual Sunrise to Canton Road Trip for Research, the Not Now Silly Newsroom sent ace investigative reporter Headly Westerfield to ...

A Note From The Road

Spent yesterday at the Ann Arbor Art Fair. That’s where I encountered this Foxite. It was tempting to jump into the shot, but then I remembered guarding David Onley on ...

Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins ► Chapter Two

Our next destination in Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins. This path runs along another section of The Colour Line in Coconut Grove. Note the fence. We’ll get back to ...