Re: Long Reads - General Interest

by **Floyd Robertson** 2017-02-25, 04:30

LooseGoose wrote:Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish?

That was interesting. Timely, too, because after watching some Viking-related dramas recently, I'm quasi-obsessed with them.

by Guest 2017-03-05, 13:39

We need to solve this then send Roc or OTPT to retrieve it for us.

In search of Forrest Fenn’s treasure - Our 5-day quest for $2 million hidden in the Rockies.

by Guest 2017-03-15, 13:08

Not really a long read but certainly an interesting one.

35 Years later, he got the grade changed.

He Got a Bad Grade. So, He Got the Constitution Amended. Now He's Getting the Credit He Deserves.

by Guest 2017-04-02, 13:37

How 1,600 People Went Missing from Our Public Lands Without a Trace

by Guest 2017-04-05, 22:33

I found this interesting, don't know if you will.

For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her

by Guest 2017-05-08, 11:40

Inside the Insane Feud Between a Vegan Strip Club and the Steak House Next Door

by **Rocinante** 2017-05-12, 11:23

This ProPublica story about the maternal death rate in the U.S.

Of course I'm thinking about this shit.

https://www.propublica.org/article/die-in-childbirth-maternal-death-rate-health-care-system?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=1494579895

by Guest 2017-05-16, 15:13

My Family’s Slave

She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.

by Guest 2017-05-21, 14:24

The Last American Man

by aualum06 2017-05-21, 15:10

Just read that slave article yesterday one of my history professors from college posted it. Interesting and sad story.

by **DWags** 2017-05-21, 16:35

LooseGoose wrote:The Last American Man

I'd love to spend a couple days with that guy.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2017-05-21, 16:39

I enjoyed the Lola read. Thanks for posting.

by Guest 2017-05-21, 17:26

DWags wrote:
LooseGoose wrote:The Last American Man

I'd love to spend a couple days with that guy.

He's on one of the current reality shows. I'd thought he was kind of a phony on there but this article told me I was probably dead wrong. He's an interesting character though.

The series is ok but not great. Some decent characters to watch.
Mountain Men (TV series)

by Guest 2017-05-28, 10:07

Why Lake Superior Is the Country's Most Overlooked Playground

by **Rocinante** 2017-05-28, 12:15

LooseGoose wrote:We need to solve this then send Roc or OTPT to retrieve it for us.

In search of Forrest Fenn’s treasure - Our 5-day quest for $2 million hidden in the Rockies.

There's still a significant amount of lost "treasure" in Wyoming. Miners and rr workers were paid in silver and the payments were held up quite often. Sometimes the loot was stashed never to be recovered when the perp met an untimely end.

by **Floyd Robertson** 2017-05-29, 15:12

R.I.P., Frank Deford.

An old piece of his.

The Ring Leader: Bill Russell helped the Celtics rule their sport like no team ever has

by Guest 2017-06-01, 13:06

The Rise and Fall of Toronto's Classiest Con Man

by **Floyd Robertson** 2017-06-02, 08:29

How the World’s Most Interesting Man Befriended the World’s Most Powerful Man

by Guest 2017-06-02, 09:30

Floyd Robertson wrote:How the World’s Most Interesting Man Befriended the World’s Most Powerful Man

Said he was on Gunsmoke 16 times...I didn't have a clue on that one until I saw his younger self then I immediately recognized him.
Long Reads - General Interest - Page 4 Young-Jonathan-Goldsmith-Mission-Impossible

Long Reads - General Interest - Page 4 Young-Jonathan-Goldsmith-Mission-Impossible

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2017-06-02, 09:42

LooseGoose wrote:The Rise and Fall of Toronto's Classiest Con Man

Surprised you didn't stop reading here. Wink

When I got home that night, I watched as another bullying fraud snuck his way into a tenancy, this one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D. C.

by **DWags** 2017-06-02, 09:56

Floyd Robertson wrote:How the World’s Most Interesting Man Befriended the World’s Most Powerful Man

Great story. The guy really IS interesting.

by Guest 2017-06-02, 12:04

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:
LooseGoose wrote:The Rise and Fall of Toronto's Classiest Con Man

Surprised you didn't stop reading here.

When I got home that night, I watched as another bullying fraud snuck his way into a tenancy, this one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D. C.

Nah, I'm used to cheap shots in the Bin.

by **Robert J Sakimano** 2017-06-02, 12:11

LooseGoose wrote:
WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:

Surprised you didn't stop reading here.

Nah, I'm used to cheap shots in the Bin.

Long Reads - General Interest - Page 4 Giphy

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2017-06-02, 19:12

Good read on tMIMITW. Please keep posting these. I like to read them.

by Guest 2017-06-03, 08:30

For Bob's July 4th weekend.
The Mackinac Island Stone Skipping Competition Teaching a stone to fly

by Guest 2017-06-08, 12:42

Interesting back story of the board game.

The Original Monopoly Was Deeply Anti-Landlord

by Guest 2017-06-11, 09:44

Good read here.....
How Steve Case became Washington's tech whisperer

by Guest 2017-08-02, 12:22

Interesting story...

The Complicated Life and Death of Hideki Irabu

by Guest 2017-08-04, 15:12

Not an exceptionally long read - but a nice one.

Six-Man Forever In a fading town in rural Texas, one girl took the field in the struggle to keep a high school football tradition alive.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2017-09-12, 09:53

Not long. But interesting.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/I-downloaded-an-app-And-suddenly-I-was-talking-12172506.php

by **Robert J Sakimano** 2017-09-12, 09:56

LooseGoose wrote:For Bob's July 4th weekend.
The Mackinac Island Stone Skipping Competition Teaching a stone to fly

I just now saw this.. I'll bookmark it and read it next year on the 4th.

Thanks, G.

by TheReal_LWS 2017-09-14, 12:29

Found this one fascinating:

https://www.gq.com/story/harrison-ford-gq-cover-story-2017?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313

I am not a fan of his per say, but I do like people that are kind of rebellious. I like that he so obviously doesn't want to do this but seems contractually obligated to do press for his movie.

by MSU addict 2017-10-05, 22:56

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderly-lose-their-rights?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Interesting article on state sanctioned elder abuse.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2017-10-05, 23:09

by Guest 2017-10-16, 19:32

Don't read this while hating UNC....pretty tough read for a parent.

A DECADE OF HOPE

UP THE BEIGE carpeted stairs and a quick turn to the right, Charlotte Ray arrives in the room where she goes to remember.

She pulls out the black leather chair from behind her son Jason's desk, puts her feet atop the University of North Carolina Tar Heels stool at the foot of the bed and escapes. She looks at the quilt on his bed, made from 59 of his old T-shirts and remembers the laughter and joy in every one of them.

The room has gone virtually untouched since March 26, 2007, the day Jason died. It's a moment frozen in time, with window curtains kept closed to keep the sunlight from fading any of the memories.

"I like to come in here if I'm having a bad day," she says. "I'll sit here and remember him lying in that bed as a little boy. I can see him lying there doing that. It brings me some peace of mind."

This is the boyhood room of a 21-year-old college senior who had dressed up in a yellow-horned ram costume to portray North Carolina's team mascot, Rameses.

by Guest 2017-10-29, 17:53

Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia

Arden is a suburb, an artist's colony, and a radical political experiment.

by **DWags** 2017-10-29, 18:29

LooseGoose wrote:Don't read this while hating UNC....pretty tough read for a parent.

A DECADE OF HOPE

UP THE BEIGE carpeted stairs and a quick turn to the right, Charlotte Ray arrives in the room where she goes to remember.

She pulls out the black leather chair from behind her son Jason's desk, puts her feet atop the University of North Carolina Tar Heels stool at the foot of the bed and escapes. She looks at the quilt on his bed, made from 59 of his old T-shirts and remembers the laughter and joy in every one of them.

The room has gone virtually untouched since March 26, 2007, the day Jason died. It's a moment frozen in time, with window curtains kept closed to keep the sunlight from fading any of the memories.

"I like to come in here if I'm having a bad day," she says. "I'll sit here and remember him lying in that bed as a little boy. I can see him lying there doing that. It brings me some peace of mind."

This is the boyhood room of a 21-year-old college senior who had dressed up in a yellow-horned ram costume to portray North Carolina's team mascot, Rameses.

Saw the parents on an E:60. Good people. The guy who got the kids heart lived four years. The guy with his liver is 11 years sober and still kicking.

by Guest 2017-10-31, 22:39

Scents from a Mall: The Sticky, Untold Story of Cinnabon

by **Tim Wakefield** 2017-10-31, 22:53

LooseGoose wrote:Scents from a Mall: The Sticky, Untold Story of Cinnabon

When's the next season of Better Call Saul?

by Guest 2017-11-04, 11:58

Cashing in on the donated dead The Body Trade

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