Research-Do

Research… you gotta love it. In dealing with a subject where people have been dead for 30 years, where archival materials that existed before the dawn of digital have turned or are turning to dust, where information you need was deemed not important or had a low priority and was/is being destroyed presents some serious […]

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Research-Do

Research… you gotta love it. In dealing with a subject where people have been dead for 30 years, where archival materials that existed before the dawn of digital have turned or are turning to dust, where information you need was deemed not important or had a low priority and was/is being destroyed presents some serious […]

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The Old West Meets Poison Hand

So where am I with this project? I am starting this blog way late in the process, or maybe it is right on time. The things that have occurred in my research and locating subjects to talk to about Dante is really a fantastic journey of rediscovery of my own life. I drove down to […]

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The Old West Meets Poison Hand

So where am I with this project? I am starting this blog way late in the process, or maybe it is right on time. The things that have occurred in my research and locating subjects to talk to about Dante is really a fantastic journey of rediscovery of my own life. I drove down to […]

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January 2006…still chasing ghosts

How did it all start? All I wanted to do was dispel a rumour. I was long over the conspiracy theories, long past worrying about someone controlling my world. But a fond childhood memory was involved, a guilty pleasure. Recollections come back in a flood of images. I was a fan of John Keehan aka […]

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January 2006…still chasing ghosts

How did it all start? All I wanted to do was dispel a rumour. I was long over the conspiracy theories, long past worrying about someone controlling my world. But a fond childhood memory was involved, a guilty pleasure. Recollections come back in a flood of images. I was a fan of John Keehan aka […]

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On the trail of the Count

It all starts in August of 2004 on the South Side, 47th Street, with a strange meeting with an old martial arts buddy. A rumor of a man we know being alive after supposedly being dead for 30 years and his gravesite with no headstone. John Keehan, PT Barnum of Martial Arts; hairdresser for Playboy; […]

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On the trail of the Count

It all starts in August of 2004 on the South Side, 47th Street, with a strange meeting with an old martial arts buddy. A rumor of a man we know being alive after supposedly being dead for 30 years and his gravesite with no headstone. John Keehan, PT Barnum of Martial Arts; hairdresser for Playboy; […]

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