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Backroads to ‘Bethlehem’: Odysseys of the Maroon Warrior…

BOOK REVIEW, May 1, 2023 / BOOK INFORMATION: Title: Backroads to ‘Bethlehem’: Odysseys of the Maroon Warrior, in the Shadows of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Publisher: Abbott Press, 2018/ Rev. 2022) Author: William “Duke” Smither THE MOVING WORDS BOOK REVIEW “Backroads to ‘Bethlehem’” is the prequel to William “Duke” Smither’s “Passage(s) to Saint-Domingue.” Set in

‘Gems’ Along the James: The St. Emma Military Academy Campus

By William “Duke” Smither Growing up in Kentucky, on the cusp of legalized segregation and school desegregation, I became familiar with all kinds of gemstones one could find along the creeks and riverbanks, especially the sand bars, shallow river bends, and water channels which swished and swirled, like speckled water-serpents, and striped ribbon-snakes. Not diamonds

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William Duke Smither, author of BACKROADS TO ‘BETHLEHEM’: Odysseys of the Maroon Warrior, in the Shadows of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,and PASSAGE(S) to SAINT-DOMINGUE: ‘Jakobe’s Journey’, Overture to the Gathering of Vulturesis a Frankfort Kentucky native; Richmond Virginia resident. Retired Public Utility and Nuclear site worker, Married w/ 3 children and 6 grandchildren; U.S. Navy Vietnam Era & Cuban Missile Crisis Veteran, serving as Combat Information Center Radar man aboard the USS Mazama-AE9 and USS Springfield-CLG7(then home ported on the French Riviera in Villefranche-sur-Mer); Member of “Cuban Blockade Survivors” & The American Legion…[read more]

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