River Vices

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Buffaloed by Ed Hughes

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Is Ed Hughes' time buffaloing the public about up? More than once, Ed Hughes and Ronald Turner, co-authors of Baffled by Addict...
Friday, January 09, 2015

The Cross, Dancing Logo, and Dollar Sign

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1 The  cross, representing  the promise of eternal life  through Christ’s suffering, is the central symbol of Christianity. This...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Judge Mowery and the First Amendment

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The Mowery property at 1327 Kinney's Lane The First Commandment of Portsmouth real estate is that when a person of influence has ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

O, Little Town of Portsmouth

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The Marting Building,  alias the Town Center, All Aglow As hard as it is to believe, the empty, leaky, moldy, politically radioacti...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

The Can of Worms Counseling Center

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The Loco Fred Astaire Can of Worms Logo The phrase “a can of worms” has not been around very long so its meaning is still evo...
Monday, December 01, 2014

The Addiction to Money: the Skunk, the Fox, and the Consigliere

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Money-addicted Fox and Skunk  In my previous post, “A Brief History of Portsmouth’s Psychotropic Addictions,”  I said there is...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

A Brief History of Portsmouth's Psychotropic Addictions

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In the last sixty-five years or so, psychotropic (mind altering) drugs  have had a profound  impact on America and on  Portsmouth in partic...
Thursday, November 06, 2014

The Houses of Hughes and Vernier

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Vernier's $425,000 house and 2.5 acres on a hill in West Portsmouth Who’s the more remote caregiver? Hughes prefers...
Monday, November 03, 2014

SUBOXONE BLUES

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An aerial view of Ed Hughes' big house high on a hill “ It takes a whole lot of Suboxone To detox a toxic oxen.”...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

"Something There Is That Doesn't Love A Wall"

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And the Wall Came Tumbling Down “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” Robert Frost wrote in one of his unforgettable poems....
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Robert Forrey
Retired now, I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, hold B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Wesleyan U. (Conn.) and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale, where I was a Research Associate at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and a coordinator of a committee that organized international American Studies conferences during the American Bicentennial. From 1989-2006, I taught English at Shawnee State U., in Portsmouth, Ohio, where I was active in the faculty union, the Shawnee Education Association, serving four terms as president. I also served as faculty advisor to the student gay and lesbian group. I have served also as president of the Concerned Citizens of Portmouth and Scioto County, a community action group. My scholarly interests have focused on the American Dream: the Myth and the Realities. I can be reached at rforr1@roadrunner.com A selection of my poems can be found at http://xpalidosis.blogspot.com The original contents of all blogs on this site are copyrighted @.
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