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Dusk settles on the boardwalk in Long Beach, New York. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)

Reporting in the Best Town on Long Island

Joseph Kellard July 26, 2015

Reporting in the best town on Long Island. When the editor’s seat opened at the Long Beach Herald in 2008, I jumped from that same position at the Oceanside/Island Park paper to fill it. What was I thinking?

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Tags Long Beach NY, Long Beach, journalism, Long Beach Herald, Richner Communications, Allegria Hotel, Irish Day
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic novel on the Soviet gulag. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic novel on the Soviet gulag. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)

What About The Reds?

Joseph Kellard March 30, 2014

Earlier this decade, when my nephew attended Oceanside Middle School, his teachers devoted a month to the Holocaust. He and his fellow eight-graders had to read a book, watch a movie and write several reports on this important subject.

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Tags communism, Ayn Rand
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(Credit: Wikicommons)

(Credit: Wikicommons)

Integrated Eye for the Confident Guy

Joseph Kellard March 30, 2014

Bravo’s “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” features five homosexual men who makeover heterosexual guys. The show is popular, however, not primarily because of its gay-straight dynamic, but because it promotes an important value rarely practiced today.

 

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Tags homosexuality, fashion, style, Bravo
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My Mom's Invaluable Lesson

Joseph Kellard March 30, 2014

My late mother, Rita, showered lots of love on her children, and she expressed her love to me best in a lesson capsulated by the saying "Be your own person."

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Tags Mother's Day, Joseph Kellard, parent, parents, mother
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September 11, 2001 Memorial in East Meadow NY. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)

September 11, 2001 Memorial in East Meadow NY. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)

Changed By 9/11

Joseph Kellard March 29, 2014

Every patriotic American suffered when Islamic terrorists killed nearly 3,000 innocent people on Sept. 11, 2001. I was a reporter then for the Oceanside/Island Park Herald. Although I was deeply outraged and dispirited by this atrocity, the aftermath provided me with invaluable experiences.

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Tags 9/11, September 11, terrorism, Islam
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Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino, left, and me in 2000. (Credit: Joseph Kellard)

Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino, left, and me in 2000. (Credit: Joseph Kellard)

Open Letter to Dan Marino

Joseph Kellard March 29, 2014

Dan Marino, who retired as the most productive quarterback in National Football League history, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, in 2005. I wrote the following letter to the football legend prior to the induction ceremony. 

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Tags Dan Marino, sports, football, Joseph Kellard
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