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Aug.18.2011

Paul Hertneky will join Howard Mansfield and Edie Clark to read their contributions to Beyond the Notches, Stories of Place in New Hampshire's North Country.

Paul's Latest Blogs

Aug.29.2011 - 6:07 am
The following is a sample chapter from my manuscript RUST BELT BOY:  Life in a Land of Visionaries.  If you would like to read the entire manuscript, please email me...
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Aug.18.2011 - 7:02 am
Gerald Ford's 1975 Economic Strategy  Runaway inflation triggered a national recession in mid 1970s—just as a fat and rigidly managed steel industry began taking a beating...
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Aug.18.2011 - 6:53 am
Home Sweet Home -- Small comfort in Brutalism continued from the previous post... Betty sat in the back seat of the packed station wagon as I directed my father to the Pitt...
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Jul.19.2011 - 4:01 am
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My grandparents survived immigration only to suffer through the Great Depression, making them careful with abundance and watchful for harder times. Their worries seemed quaint in...
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Comments from Paul

Jan.24.2011 - 7:18 am
In response to: Sweet, Warm Deliverance
Thank you, Barbara.  Please keep watching the blog; there's more to come. Paul
Nov.02.2010 - 7:22 pm
In response to: Mingo Junction, Ohio...Looking Back to Go On
Thank you, Larry Smith. I especially loved the bathing beauties on the banks of the "la Belle Riviere" as the French...
Aug.18.2009 - 6:32 am
In response to: SELF-PUBLISHING VS. “REAL” PUBLISHING – How To Get Your First Book Out
Among artists, the reluctant marketer is apparently dead. I backed away from a career selling cars and guns and beer to...

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