Tag: adventure

Profile: Franklin Pierce “Pancho” Huddle, Jr.

Sep 23, 2025

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Ben East

in Africa, Books, Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, Government Studies, Non-Fiction, Peace Corps, Profiles in Service, publishing, Reading, Terrorism, Travel, War

Sketch profiling Ambassador Franklin Pierce “Pancho” Huddle, Jr. from a forthcoming nonfiction boook of profiles that explore Peace Corps roots in American diplomacy.
Adventures in Punctuation

Dec 14, 2017

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by

Ben East

in Book Reviews, Humor?, Non-Fiction, Writing

Important for boys: Digging up the backyard to make a pond, building makeshift shelters out of branches, then hiding inside to spot the wildlife attracted to the pond. Not important for boys: Punctuation. Or did the publisher assume that some kid’s sister would get ahold of The Boy’s Book of Adventure and refuse to let…