Personal Blogs

The blog tabs show the links of blog entries with a common topic. Below are posted blogs that come from or are based on my experiences.

From the 1950s and 1960s and early 1970s

"The Most Fascinating Person I ever met": My Uncle Don Timbrook (August 2020) 
https://www.eclecticatbest.com/2020/08/the-most-fascinating-individual-i-ever.html

My Dad Meets Alfredo Apostoli, Ex-Middleweight Boxing Champion, on Saipan (July 2018)

https://www.eclecticatbest.com/2018/07/my-dad-meets-alfredo-apostoli-ex.html

September 5, 1967: Leaving On a Jet Plane -- The Institute of European Studies Adventure Begins (Sept. 2017)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2017/09/september-5-1967-leaving-on-jet-plane.html

The Season of Justin and J.D. (Dec. 2016)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2016/12/the-season-of-justin-and-jd.html

Playing in the Little Leagues: McIlroy Bank, 1955-1959 (Jan. 2016)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2016/01/playing-in-little-leagues-mcilroy-bank.html

My Mother's Quilts (Sept. 2016)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2016/09/my-mothers-quilts.html

Büsum, From 1966 to 2016 (Dec. 2016)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2016/12/busum-from-1966-to-2016.html

September 5, 1967: Leaving On a Jet Plane -- The Institute of European Studies Adventure Begins

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2017/09/september-5-1967-leaving-on-jet-plane.html

Visiting Israel, February 1968 (January 2015)
http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2015/01/visiting-israel-february-1968.html

Eden's Berlin Saloons: What Was Going on in 1966? (May 2014)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/05/edens-berlin-saloons-what-was-going-on.html

Visiting Berlin, August 1966 (May 2014)
http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/05/visiting-berlin-august-1966.html

My Inelegant Firecracker Stand, Fayetteville 1961 (July 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/07/my-inelegant-firecracker-stand.html

Vacationing in Tulsa (May 2013)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2013/05/vacationing-in-tulsa.html

 

Remembering the 1962 Babe Ruth League Season in Fayetteville, Arkansas (June 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/06/remembering-1962-babe-ruth-league.html

 

My Ultimate Basketball Career Highlight: January 7, 1963 (January 2013)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2013/01/my-ultimate-basketball-career-highlight.html

 

Washing Dishes at the Hotel Nordsee-Halle in Büsum, Germany, 1966 (August 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/08/washing-dishes-at-hotel-nordsee-halle.html

Prague Spring, May 1, 1968 (May 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/05/prague-spring-may-1-1968.html

 

Winthrop Rockefeller in the Back Seat of my New Cadillac: My Life at the 1968 Republican National Convention (September 2014)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/09/winthrop-rockefeller-in-back-seat-of-my.html

 

Arkansas Young Republicans in the late 1960s and Early 1970s (June 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/06/arkansas-young-republicans-in-late.html

 

Jerry Climer for Arkansas Secretary of State (October 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/10/jerry-climer-for-arkansas-secretary-of.html

 

Other Related Blogs

No Shame, No Penalties for Helping a Corrupt Authoritarian Presidential Candidate Get Elected: The Apparently Irrelevant Legacy of Paul Manafort

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2016/04/no-shame-no-penalties-for-helping.html

Calling All Idgits

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2016/12/calling-all-idgits.html

Thank You, Fellow Citizens and Taxpayer, For All You Did For Me (February 2015)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2015/02/thank-you-fellow-citizens-and-taxpayers.html

Danielka's Fayetteville Adventure: Summer 2014 (August 2014)
http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/08/danielkas-fayetteville-adventures.html

Kalmykov's Ninth (April 2011)
http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/04/kalmykovs-ninth.html

Encountering History: The Pleasure of Meeting Gita Vygodskaya (June 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/06/encountering-history-pleasure-of.html

County Fairs Past and Present: Death-Defying Rides and Nifty Quilts (August 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/08/county-fairs-past-and-present-death.html

A Death in the Ozarks, March 1928 (September 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/09/death-in-ozarks-march-1928.html

Finding M. W. Fodor: Fulbright, Vienna, and Me (September 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/09/finding-m-w-fodor-fulbright-vienna-and.html

Thinking Cheap, Buying "Brown" in Austria, 1972 (October 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/10/thinking-cheap-buying-brown-in-austria.html

Celebrating Ukraine's Orange Revolution: Photos of Inauguration Day, Kiev, January 23, 2005 (January 2014)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/01/celebrating-ukraines-orange-revolution.html

 

Grisly Results as the Song-of-the-Earth Jinx Strikes Again (March 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/03/grisly-results-as-song-of-earth-jinx.html

 

The "Song of the Earth" Jinx (March 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/03/song-of-earth-jinx.html