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Blackbeard’s Ghost

By Mark | August 12, 2018

Last night, Arlo and I watched the 1968 Disney film Blackbeard’s Ghost, starring Peter Ustinov, Suzanne Pleshette, and Dean “the poor man’s Jimmy Stewart” Jones… After having spent about 20 minutes sorting through our options, we’d narrowed it down to two movies, and Arlo decided against Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, having […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1968, Arlo, assassination, bad movie reviews, Blackbeard's Ghost, bloodshed, Disney, Easy Rider, hotdogs, Jimmy Stewart, MLK, movie reviews, movies, North Carolina, Peter Fonda, pirates, RFK, Robert Maynard, Roger Ebert, Royal Navy, Targets, Tet Offensive, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, track, track and field, Won Ton Ton | 24 Comments

Maynards of East Kentucky

By Mark | June 20, 2011

I know it’s a bit of a reach, but if anyone in the audience has an extra copy of The Maynards of East Kentucky laying around, I’d love to borrow it. In case you can’t read the small print, this is what’s written at the bottom of the cover… “On Brushy Creek in 1813, James […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1813, 1814, Blackbeard, Brushy Creek, cabins, Christopher "Kit" Maynard, From Pioneers to the Tenth Generation, genealogy, great achievements of white people, Kentucky, Lieutenant Robert Maynard, other Maynards, Pike County, pirates, Roland B. Maynard, rude, the history of white people, The Maynards of East Kentucky, whitey | 38 Comments

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