Continuing my journey back in time to the blogs and podcasts which hosted me over a decade ago, I discovered that two of the oldest ones, "Readers Views" and "Travelanthropist", no longer exist. Their content has disappeared into digital ether. I don't remember "doing" either of them and can only guess at what we might have covered in the interviews. Their links will be deleted from my website.
The next oldest with a working link is a guest-blog-interview, dated May 8, 2012, on the Kris Wampler Blog. The most recent post on the blog is dated September 30, 2022, so I'm not sure whether Kris is still doing interviews and blogging. I have a vague recollection of talking with Kris about "fleeing the law." Kris's bio on the blog-site states that, "Kris Wampler is a licensed North Carolina attorney who practiced family law for nearly seven years before leaving practice to pursue a freelance writing career."
The blog interview is about what was my recently published "Monsters of the Midway 1969: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, Viet Nam, Civil Rights, and Football." However, the original 2012 version of the book was "unpublished" and replaced by a 2017 revised edition. The blog opens with this description of the book:
...In 1969, amidst the culture of sex, drugs, rock and roll, the draft lottery, the anti-war movement and radical feminism, the University of Chicago resurrected its football team after it had been dead for 30 years. A small town Hoosier kid who just wanted to get the best education possible joins the team to build his resume. His teammates are jocks, pot smokers and nerdy intellectuals. Along with his teammates he is swept into the tumult of the late 1960s. He falls in love with a radical feminist who demonstrates against the return of football to Chicago. He rooms with a secular Jewish kid taking ballet whose father has begun manufacturing something called a computer chip.
An assistant coach rides Jack for not fully committing to the team. His favorite professor chides him to concentrate on his studies. What sustains Jack through the bewildering cultural milieu, and the pressure of balancing sports and studies, is the tolerant understanding of his head coach, reconciliation with his girlfriend, and the friendship of his teammates....
It was very gracious of Kris to give my book a plug on his blog. I hope he has prospered in his writing endeavors and his life journey has been a good one during the last eleven years.
Blog link: https://kriswampler.com/2012/05/08/je...
Monsters of the Midway 1969: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, Viet Nam, Civil Rights, and Football https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Midwa...