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Most recent PHOTOS matching your search for 'Tom Chaney'...
  1. Happy Birthday to writer Robert Stone (Photo ID: 97690)
    Robert Stone of Columbia Magazine Haiku fame celebrated a birthday over the weekend. He shared this photo from a former birthday with friends ... (click photo title to read more)

  2. Tom Chaney, 85, Horse Cave, KY (1937-2022) (Photo ID: 97071)
    ... (click photo title to read more)

  3. Horse Cave, KY offers an App-guided walking tour of downtown - HART COUNTY (Photo ID: 80303)
    A discovery in Horse Cave - they've developed cell phone guided walking tours of their town which will definitely require a trip back when there... (click photo title to read more)

  4. Ticket stub from the Twin Cities Drive-IN (Photo ID: 67677)
    I found a ticket stub for the Twin City Drive-in in an old purse in a steamer trunk. I googled the drive-in and came across a photo on your site a... (click photo title to read more)

  5. Scenic Barren County, KY: Wigwam on US 31W (Photo ID: 55099)
    Larry Smith, Operations Manager for Shoreline Communications, took this photo on a day trip over Maxie's Knob, through Munfordville, Horse Ca... (click photo title to read more)

  6. Shaggy dog: from wiles of Hart Co. to wiles of Columbus, OH (Photo ID: 49904)
    IN REAL LIFE, Tom Chaney can often be found minding The Bookstore on Water Street in Horse Cave. But he once had occasion to deliver this C... (click photo title to read more)

  7. Joyful Spring: Dandelions (Photo ID: 49331)
    Dandelions gone to seed in Columbia, KY, a reminder of Lawn Police Civil Disobeyer Tom Chaney's word's in his masterful 'Ode to Spring,... (click photo title to read more)

  8. Book talk (Photo ID: 34125)
    WRITER TOM CHANEY, on the right with the pipe, talks books with ColumbiaMagazine.com publisher Ed Waggener at left in this photo from C... (click photo title to read more)

  9. Sunday with CM, a good cup of coffee, and Tom Chaney (Photo ID: 33823)
    There's a lot to read and enjoy spending Sundays with CM. Tom Chaney, up on this laptop, goes right well with a good cup of coffee. Most week's Tom Ch... (click photo title to read more)

  10. At the Dusk of Dawn now at Horse Cave Bookstore (Photo ID: 31992)
    A book which brought a great deal of joy to book reviewer and seller Tom Chaney of The Bookstore in Horse Cave, KY came in this week. Chane... (click photo title to read more)

  11. Sheepdog: From wilds of Hart Co., KY to wiles of Columbus, OH (Photo ID: 27383)
    IN REAL LIFE, Tom Chaney can often be found mind The Bookstore on Water Street in Horse Cave. But he recently had occasion to deliver this ... (click photo title to read more)

  12. The Horse Cave Catalpa Tree: Do not cut me down (Photo ID: 24084)
    May-or, May-or, Do Not Cut Me Down. While all others thou art felling, Do Not Cut Me Down: A banner was affixed to the famous old Ho... (click photo title to read more)

  13. Tom Chaney at Slider April 4 at 4 p.m. (Photo ID: 21833)
    Tom Chaney will present Moonshine, Whiskey, Pan Friend Chicken and Peacocks at 4p.m. CST on Tuesday, April 4, in W.W. Slider Humanities Center ... (click photo title to read more)

  14. The Bookstore in Horse Cave: Figures historically in Cuba Cubs story (Photo ID: 21807)
    TOM CHANEY, owner of The Bookstore in Horse Cave, notes in his critique of When Cuba Conquered Kentucky by Marianne Walker, that the famous Cuba, KY, ... (click photo title to read more)

 Most recent STORIES matching your search for 'Tom Chaney'...
  1. Remembering Tom Chaney (Story ID: 127983)
    A Celebration of Life for the late Tom Chaney was held on Sunday, July 2, 2023 at the Thomas House in Horse Cave. Phil Hanna has shared a copy of the ... (click title to read more)

  2. Tom Chaney's life to be celebrated July 2, 2023 (Story ID: 127857)
    By Robert Stone There will be a Celebration of Life for Tom Chaney Sunday, July 2, 2023 at the Thomas House in Horse Cave (111 East ... (click title to read more)

  3. Letter: Story of Tom Chaney (Story ID: 125011)
    Martha Berry writes: I must have merged two memories. My Dad was Pastor of Horse Cave Methodist Church from about 1937-1941.... (click title to read more)

  4. Sad word of the passing of Tom Chaney (Story ID: 124995)
    Robert Stone sends sad news of the passing of longtime Columbia Magazine contributor, raconteur, and Horse Cav... (click title to read more)

  5. Encore Tom Chaney essay, by request: Catalpa's White Week (Story ID: 97814)
    Robert Stone writes: I saw the photo of the catalpa and thought you might want to refer back to this old Tom Chaney story. It first appeared in CM ... (click title to read more)

  6. Scenic Kentucky: Sleep In A WigWam (Story ID: 96806)
    ... (click title to read more)

  7. Tom Chaney: Playwrights and Their Plays in Horse Cave (Story ID: 82420)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Playwrights and Their Plays in Horse Cave. For many years Horse Cave Theatre encouraged the development of new wor... (click title to read more)

  8. Tom Chaney: Christmas at the Theatre (Story ID: 82279)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Christmas at the Theatre. The lesson of redemption possible in a dark and troubled soul and world is often told at Ch... (click title to read more)

  9. Tom Chaney: Roma: from salt makers to the Ides of March (Story ID: 82150)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Roma: from salt makers to the Ides of March. Tom reviews a sprawling historical novel, Roma, focusin... (click title to read more)

  10. Tom Chaney: Davis McCombs in Lexington (Story ID: 81966)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Davis McCombs in Lexington. Tom talks of Three Kentucky writers who deal with the idea of the land, of community a... (click title to read more)

  11. Tom Chaney: The Holy Communion of Rabbit Hunting (Story ID: 81759)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Holy Communion of Rabbit Hunting. Tom notes that fifteen years of hunting with the men and Walt Harrington is ... (click title to read more)

  12. Mr. Peabody's Coal Train's Done Hauled it Away (Story ID: 81571)
    Of Writers And Their Books: "Mr. Peabody's Coal Train's Done Hauled it Away." Tom points out that the practice of mountaintop removal to e... (click title to read more)

  13. Tom Chaney: Big Harp, Little Harp, and Billie Potts (Story ID: 81379)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Big Harp, Little Harp, and Billie Potts. Tom discusses Robert Penn Warren’s poem, "The Ballad of Billie Potts” de... (click title to read more)

  14. Tom Chaney: Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Fort Lauderdale (Story ID: 81222)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Fort Lauderdale. Tom tells us that John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee is a kind of Don Quixot... (click title to read more)

  15. Tom Chaney: These Are the Times That Try Men's Souls (Story ID: 81034)
    Of Writers And Their Books: "These Are the Times That Try Men's Souls." Tom reviews David McCullough's book 1776 which tells the story ... (click title to read more)

  16. Tom Chaney: Money, Sex, and Murder (Story ID: 80862)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Money, Sex, and Murder. Tom tells of the early days of Kentucky when land speculation, inflation, bank failures, a... (click title to read more)

  17. Tom Chaney: World Enough and Time (Story ID: 80642)
    Of Writers And Their Books: World Enough and Time. Tom ends this review of Robert Penn Warren’s book with a quotation “if we can only k... (click title to read more)

  18. Tom Chaney: Possum Hunters and the Tobacco Trust (Story ID: 80438)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Possum Hunters and the Tobacco Trust. Tom says that previously company buyers competed with each other, bidding on... (click title to read more)

  19. Tom Chaney: Night Rider: Idealism's Coil (Story ID: 80191)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Night Rider: Idealism's Coil. Tom says Percy Munn is one of a long line of Warren characters whose idealis... (click title to read more)

  20. Tom Chaney: Cyrus Edwards on the Elizabeth Wilson Family (Story ID: 80020)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Cyrus Edwards on the Elizabeth Wilson Family, Including an Account of a Fearsome Duel. Tom recounts the duel betwe... (click title to read more)

  21. Tom Chaney: Facts, Facts -- More Facts (Story ID: 79886)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Facts, Facts -- More Facts. Tom points out all the treasures of Clark's Kentucky Almanac and Book of Facts, 20... (click title to read more)

  22. Tom Chaney: What Might Have Been (Story ID: 79775)
    Of Writers And Their Books: What Might Have Been Tom discusses the differences between movies and novels and comments on... (click title to read more)

  23. CM Christmas Story Anthology: A read-aloud time of memories (Story ID: 79762)
    Christmas is a time of remembering, and these Christmas stories bring back lots of them. They are the classic ones, some from prolific writers, some f... (click title to read more)

  24. Tom Chaney: Manhunt (Story ID: 79685)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Manhunt! Tom reviews James L. Swanson’s Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, the best day b... (click title to read more)

  25. Tom Chaney: Murder in Scandinavia (Story ID: 79555)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Murder in Scandinavia. Tom says Mankell is a master at the description of pursuit; and at the use of landscape to ... (click title to read more)

  26. Tom Chaney: Me Growed from a Pumpkin Seed (Story ID: 79387)
    Of Writers And Their Books: "Me Growed from a Pumpkin Seed." Tom reviews Lynwood Montell’s book about Kentucky one-room schools and adds com... (click title to read more)

  27. Tom Chaney: Jim Lowe's Reading Suggestions (Story ID: 79252)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Jim Lowe's Reading Suggestions. Tom provides Jim Lowe’s suggestions of a book for each month of the year. Th... (click title to read more)

  28. Tom Chaney: Stories Rise Like Smoke (Story ID: 79114)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Stories Rise Like Smoke. Tom waxes poetic about storytelling. This column first appeared 23 January 2011. ... (click title to read more)

  29. Tom Chaney: I Don't Go To Church - Kneeling Bags my Nylons (Story ID: 78958)
    Of Writers And Their Books: "I Don't Go To Church -- Kneeling Bags my Nylons." Tom reviews the Billy Wilder film Ace in the Hole sta... (click title to read more)

  30. Tom Chaney: Shaken, not Stirred (Story ID: 78784)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Shaken, not Stirred. Tom says James Bond was suave. He rushed about thwarting the evil communists and other malefa... (click title to read more)

  31. Tom Chaney: Understanding the Enemy (Story ID: 78632)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Understanding the Enemy. Tom says To love our enemies may be too much to ask, but Berenson helps us to understand ... (click title to read more)

  32. Tom Chaney: Christmas Again (Story ID: 78477)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Christmas Again. Please bear in mind that this Tom Chaney column is from December five years ago. The church cookb... (click title to read more)

  33. Tom Chaney: Literature and the Plague (Story ID: 78336)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Literature and the Plague. Tom discusses Katherine Anne Porter who in 1939 published the novella Pale Horse, Pa... (click title to read more)

  34. Tom Chaney: The First Black Novel (More than Likely) (Story ID: 78202)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The First Black Novel (More than Likely). Tom discusses William Wells Brown who took the story of the Thomas Jeffe... (click title to read more)

  35. Tom Chaney: Doing History - Celebrating Feet of Clay (Story ID: 78094)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Doing History -- Celebrating Feet of Clay. Tom discusses the book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An Americ... (click title to read more)

  36. Tom Chaney: A World Made New (Story ID: 77959)
    Of Writers And Their Books: A World Made New. Tom says that with Ken Follett’s writing beauty lies in what remains after the nonessential elem... (click title to read more)

  37. Tom Chaney: The Hero Takes No Crap (Story ID: 77808)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Hero Takes No Crap. Tom says one virtue is complexity of character as well as relationships between and among ... (click title to read more)

  38. Tom Chaney: Alan Vance at The Gallery (Story ID: 77652)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Conversations: Alan Vance at The Gallery. Tom turns to "Of Painters and Their Palates" and says that in viewing ... (click title to read more)

  39. Tom Chaney: The Plague of 1918 (Story ID: 77499)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Plague of 1918. Tom says the terror of 1918 was spread by public officials -- "not by exaggerating the diseas... (click title to read more)

  40. Tom Chaney: From The Hawks to The Band (Story ID: 77357)
    Of Writers And Their Books: From The Hawks to The Band. Tom reviews This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band. T... (click title to read more)

  41. Tom Chaney: Yes, I Can. And, Yes, I Did (Story ID: 77231)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Yes, I Can. And, Yes, I Did! Tom says, I reckon it was scarier of a night before the electric came and lit up the dar... (click title to read more)

  42. Tom Chaney: Galilean Twins (Story ID: 77100)
    Of Writers and Their Books No. 267, First published on 29 August 2010. Galilean Twins, a review on the book by Phillip Pullman, which Tom sa... (click title to read more)

  43. Tom Chaney: On To Oregon (Story ID: 76953)
    Of Writers And Their Books: On To Oregon. Tom discusses The Big Sky: "It was a slim chance that people would find themselves better of... (click title to read more)

  44. Tom Chaney: The Road to Savoyard (Story ID: 76804)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Road to Savoyard. Tom discusses how, if you are in Chicken Bristle, to find your way to Savoyard and the namin... (click title to read more)

  45. Tom Chaney: Cool Reading - Hot Summertime (Story ID: 76663)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Cool Reading -- Hot Summertime. Tom says, about the best cooling summertime activity I know... (click title to read more)

  46. Tom Chaney: Unseen Women (Story ID: 76516)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Unseen Women. Tom says he wants to squinch about when he reads of a white southern writer attempting to fathom the... (click title to read more)

  47. Tom Chaney: Possum Unlimited (Story ID: 76388)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Possum Unlimited. Tom reports that Bogus Enterprises, Somewhat Limited is unveiling its plan to provide dressed po... (click title to read more)

  48. Tom Chaney: The Lion of Whitehall (Story ID: 76245)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Lion of Whitehall. Tom reports that Clay was a founder of Berea College; published an abolitionist paper; help... (click title to read more)

  49. Trapped in a Cave: The story of Mr. Fancher and Tommy Jeffries (Story ID: 76124)
    The incident occurred in the community of Sulphur Well, in Metcalfe County, KY. This time, the rescue was successful, One man paid a terrible price... (click title to read more)

  50. Tom Chaney: Trapped, Collins and Fancher (Story ID: 76114)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Trapped: Collins and Fancher. Tom tells of the failed Collins rescue that assisted the formation of Mammoth... (click title to read more)

  51. Tom Chaney: Summer's Bounty (Story ID: 75987)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Summer's Bounty. Tom shares a recipe to deal with summer’s bounty. This column first appeared 20 June 2010. ... (click title to read more)

  52. Tom Chaney: Custer Wore an Arrow Shirt (Story ID: 75845)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Custer Wore an Arrow Shirt. Tom comments on a comic extravaganza about four environmental warriors who are united ... (click title to read more)

  53. Tom Chaney: The Battered Innocence in Us (Story ID: 75727)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Battered Innocence in Us. Tom says the yearning for leaving, for a lesson just out of reach, gives both Burke ... (click title to read more)

  54. Tom Chaney: Heat Lightning (Story ID: 75587)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Heat Lightning. Tom says that Blum's account of the blast, the causes, the search for the guilty, and the trials ... (click title to read more)

  55. Tom Chaney: Rolling Down the Rivers (Story ID: 75448)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Rolling Down the Rivers. Tom comments on four volumes (three rivers) in the Rivers of America series: the T... (click title to read more)

  56. Tom Chaney: It's Not That We Forgot - We Never Knew (Story ID: 75310)
    Of Writers And Their Books: "It's Not That We Forgot.... We Never Knew." Tom says The Rohna was the first ship to become victim of a... (click title to read more)

  57. Tom Chaney: Though You Kill Me, I Must Bury My Brother (Story ID: 75148)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Though You Kill Me, I Must Bury My Brother! Tom says, the conflict in Anouilh’s Antigone boils down to Anti... (click title to read more)

  58. Tom Chaney: The Art of Ken Follett (Story ID: 74995)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Art of Ken Follett. Tom says, Follett is also a master of suspense -- believable suspense. This column fir... (click title to read more)

  59. Tom Chaney: Scotching the Fast Fading Past (Story ID: 74820)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Scotching the Fast Fading Past. Tom says, Going beyond the gathering of stories, the best of these oral historians... (click title to read more)

  60. Tom Chaney: And Finally, Spring (Story ID: 74662)
    Of Writers And Their Books: And Finally, Spring. Tom say, if God had intended for there to be metrification, there would only have been ten ap... (click title to read more)

  61. Tom Chaney: Rigor Morality (Story ID: 74505)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Rigor Morality: Ralph McInerny, Thomas Aquinas, and Father Dowling. Tom says pick up one of the Father Dowling nov... (click title to read more)

  62. Tom Chaney: Where Do We Go From Here? (Story ID: 74367)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Where Do We Go From Here? Sociology and Compassion. Tom tells of the young people he interviewed to work in The Bo... (click title to read more)

  63. Tom Chaney: Billboard Dreaming (Story ID: 74193)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Billboard Dreaming. Tom dreams of unwritten books half read and of billboards flapping their messages in a thunder... (click title to read more)

  64. Edward Petko differs on article on Joseph Altsheler (Story ID: 74120)
    Edward Petko writes: Your article contains an error. Mr. Altsheler did not work any time for the New York Herald, as you clai... (click title to read more)

  65. Tom Chaney: Down these mean streets (Story ID: 74039)
    Of Writers And Their Books: "Down these mean streets. . . ." Tom says Joseph Hansen has a deft pen for describing the landscape with special... (click title to read more)

  66. Tom Chaney: Fragments of Deceit (Story ID: 73902)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Fragments of Deceit. Tom says you might not expect a high degree of excitement from a thriller which turns on copy... (click title to read more)

  67. Tom Chaney: Five Years and Going Around Again (Story ID: 73782)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Five Years and Going Around Again. Tom says Out of Green River Kitchens is what a cookbook should be -- a v... (click title to read more)

  68. Tom Chaney: Even If It's Broken, Don't Fix It (Story ID: 73595)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Even If It's Broken, Don't Fix It. Tom says all in all Proulx is a fine story teller. This column first appe... (click title to read more)

  69. Tom Chaney: Backing into spring (Story ID: 73410)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Backing Into Spring. Tom says I don't give a fig for any groundhog save the one close at hand. This column fi... (click title to read more)

  70. Tom Chaney: Cyrus Edwards on the Elizabeth Wilson Family (Story ID: 73147)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Cyrus Edwards on the Elizabeth Wilson Family. Tom recounts the arrival about 1802 of Elizabeth Wilson with five so... (click title to read more)

  71. Tom Chaney: I Started to Talk About John Sandford (Story ID: 73006)
    Of Writers And Their Books: I Started to Talk About John Sandford. Tom says because he has fun, so can the reader. If you don't know John San... (click title to read more)

  72. Tom Chaney: Heavenly Music (Story ID: 72871)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Heavenly Music. Tom thinks listening to old time music is just about what heaven will have to be for him to put up... (click title to read more)

  73. Tom Chaney: Fare Thee Well, Robert Parker (Story ID: 72724)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Fare Thee Well, Robert Parker. Tom is saddened that Parker has slipped the bonds of Boston. Yet he gives thanks th... (click title to read more)

  74. Tom Chaney: Minnesota Dreaming (Story ID: 72565)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Minnesota Dreaming. Tom recounts the ‘joys’ of fishing and a trip through Minnesota to Canada and says he will rev... (click title to read more)

  75. Tom Chaney: Crime and Punishment by the Quire (Story ID: 72414)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Crime and Punishment by the Quire. Tom says Bartlett reflects on the sort of affection for books which can lead to... (click title to read more)

  76. Tom Chaney: The Developing Image of God (Story ID: 72258)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Developing Image of God. Tom says Robert Wright nibbles at the underpinnings of the way we normally see the wo... (click title to read more)

  77. Tom Chaney: The Ledger of a Country Store (Story ID: 72144)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Ledger of a Country Store. Tom reports from family tradition and a ledger how things were in the ‘old’ days.... (click title to read more)

  78. Tom Chaney: Shadows on the Wall of The Cave (Story ID: 72009)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Shadows on the Wall of The Cave. Tom says Robert Penn Warren is not retelling the story of Floyd Collins bu... (click title to read more)

  79. Tom Chaney: Elvis: A Tragic Life (Story ID: 71725)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Elvis: A Tragic Life. Tom says Mason shows us Elvis emerging as a semi-tragic figure fomenti... (click title to read more)

  80. Tom Chaney: Think BOOKS for Christmas (Story ID: 71558)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Think BOOKS for Christmas. Tom suggests three categories of books for presents: local history, signed first editio... (click title to read more)

  81. Tom Chaney: Western Trails and Ralph Compton (Story ID: 71418)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Western Trails and Ralph Compton. Tom says Ralph Compton's novels are not great literature but the action is grea... (click title to read more)

  82. Tom Chaney: Carl Hiaasen Strikes Again (Story ID: 71215)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Carl Hiaasen Strikes Again. Tom says if you don't know the fine novels of Carl Hiaasen, then run, don't walk, to... (click title to read more)

  83. Tom Chaney: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave (Story ID: 71061)
    Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave. Tom approves of Roger Brucker's having Stephen Bishop's wife Charlotte tell his tale. This column first... (click title to read more)

  84. Today, TUESDAY with CM, ELECTION DAY 4 Nov, 2014 (Story ID: 70926)
    Haiku by Robert Stone for November 4, 2014: Not the words themselves but the tone and the kind ... (click title to read more)

  85. Tom Chaney: Organic Tobacco or Hosannas to the Herb Divine (Story ID: 70860)
    Tom reports on the Sante Fe Natural Tobacco Company which seeks to avoid chemicals and make a product similar to the tobacco consumed a hundred or so ... (click title to read more)

  86. Tom Chaney: Welcome to Catfish Bend (Story ID: 70685)
    Welcome to Catfish Bend. Tom introduces Ben Lucien Burman, a fabulist, that is, a writer who creates a world peopled by animals which demonst... (click title to read more)

  87. Tom Chaney: Papal High Jinks (Story ID: 70523)
    Papal High Jinks. Tom says Robert Ludlum is the daddy of the quick paced thriller wherein shadowy forces conspire to do in the status quo.... (click title to read more)

  88. Tom Chaney: Dan Brown and the screenplay as novel (Story ID: 70359)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Dan Brown and the screenplay as novel. Tom says if one can come away from The Lost Symbol... (click title to read more)

  89. Today, THURSDAY with CM, October 9, 2014 (Story ID: 70289)
    Haiku by Robert Stone for October 9, 2014: How high blazes joy when written evidence found ... (click title to read more)

  90. Tom Chaney: Nancy Drew at 75 (Story ID: 70213)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Nancy Drew at 75. Tom discusses the history of the writing of the long-running series of Nancy Drew books. Thi... (click title to read more)

  91. Tom Chaney: We Rob Banks (Story ID: 70033)
    Of Writers And Their Books: We Rob Banks. Tom discusses the 'true' and sad lives of Bonnie and Clyde as told in Go Down Together by J... (click title to read more)

  92. Tom Chaney: At the Dusk of Dawn (Story ID: 69872)
    Of Writers And Their Books: At the Dusk of Dawn. Tom discusses the Poetry and Prose of Albery Allson Whitman, born a slave in Hart County.... (click title to read more)

  93. Tom Chaney: The Lighted Torch of the Secesh (Story ID: 69747)
    Of Writers And Their Books: The Lighted Torch of the 'Secesh' or Civil War Days in Reality. Tom reproduces a letter from February 1862 descr... (click title to read more)

  94. Tom Chaney: Fenton Johnson, A Fine Voice from New Haven (Story ID: 69588)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Fenton Johnson: A Fine Voice from New Haven. Tom says Fenton Johnson's voice is as vivid as a streak of fierce li... (click title to read more)

  95. Tom Chaney: How Many Biscuits Can You Eat? (Story ID: 69457)
    Of Writers And Their Books: How Many Biscuits Can You Eat? Tom turns to a matter of high urgency and utmost seriousness: Biscuits. This co... (click title to read more)

  96. Tom Chaney: When the Guns Are Turned (Story ID: 69319)
    Of Writers And Their Books: When the Guns Are Turned. Tom reviews the Advocate by Bill Mesce, Jr., a novel recounting an investigation ... (click title to read more)

  97. Tom Chaney: Someone's in the Kitchen with Julia (Story ID: 69171)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Someone's in the Kitchen with Julia. Tom reviews Julie & Julia, a 2009 movie based on Child's memoir M... (click title to read more)

  98. Tom Chaney: James Lee Burke (Story ID: 69021)
    Of Writers And Their Books: James Lee Burke. Tom says character for Burke is more like gazing into a pool of water -- first still and clear, then... (click title to read more)

  99. Tom Chaney: There Is No God and We Are His Prophets (Story ID: 68869)
    Of Writers And Their Books: "There Is No God and We Are His Prophets." Tom reports on Cormac McCarthy's depiction of apocalyptic despair in... (click title to read more)

  100. Tom Chaney: Early Visitors to the Horse Cave (Story ID: 68714)
    Of Writers And Their Books: Early Visitors to the Horse Cave. Tom gives brief descriptions of three early accounts of visits to Horse Cave.... (click title to read more)




 

































 
 
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