Dusk settles on the boardwalk in Long Beach, New York. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
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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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic novel on the Soviet gulag. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
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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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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A young version of me with my mother, Rita.
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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September 11, 2001 Memorial in East Meadow NY. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
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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Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino, left, and me in 2000. (Credit: Joseph Kellard)
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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