Columnists conference in Texas, summer 2005
Tuesday, June 28, 2005: I am writing together so many odds and ends that I’ve been taking notes on for more than a week that they qualify for placement under various dates, not just today. This riff has as its genesis the 29th annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, which was June […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, June 27, 2005: Representatives of Highfill, home of Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, should mosey down to Grapevine, Texas, and take notes, themselves. This town has created a historical district, which on some holidays and by request (such as for visiting columnists) puts volunteers in early 20th-century costume and gives […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, June 25, 2005: The columnists had a great afternoon at the Sixth-Floor Museum meeting with three eyewitnesses to the JFK assassination and-or its immediate aftermath. But the focus of this entry is a morning session led by New York writer Pete Hamill. My longhand notes are fine as records […]
Two columnists walk into a bar Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, June 24, 2005: A temptation is to write rather complete articles from the notes I took at the just-completed conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, meeting in Grapevine, to the northeast of Fort Worth and northwest of Dallas. But what I […]