I presented my book Undiminished Violence before a virtual audience in November 2021. Between the presentation and questions, it lasted an hour and I was very pleased with the response and subsequent interest in the book.
I also presented the story to several public libraries in New Jeresy. Fun to share my interests and research.
In the last few months, I have written three more titles to add to the series. They join Undiminished Violence, the story of the John Minturn storm of 1846, in the New Jersey series. The three new additions cover a period from the Revolutionary War through World War II.
Ensnared– The 1777 Loss of HMS Zebra
Listen to a short narration of Ensnared :
A brief story of the Perasto and its influence on the Life Saving Service follows:
Here is a short audio of the demise of the tug Great Issac:
I recently updated my published books and didn’t realize that I have completed a dozen to date.
Who knew?
The most recent maritime history books are almost equally divided between U.S and British shipwrecks.
These are part of the Great Atlantic Series
They are available on Amazon:
The poorly planned and executed 1797 attempt by Napoleon’s Navy to recruit Irish rebels ends in disaster. Listen to a synopsis below of Expedition to Ireland:
A holiday excursion from Liverpool to North Wales in August 1831 ends in disaster. Listen to a summary of Disaster at Dutchman’s Bay
Hundreds were on hand to celebrate the launch of the S.S. Daphne in 1883, but in seconds the event turned from festivity to disaster. Listen to a synopsis of Lost at Launch:
My website was out of commission for a few weeks because my hosting provider EHOST went out of business, taking me down with them. Since their warning messages warning of my website demise ended up in my never-looked-at “Promotions folder”, I was unaware of the pending doom.
I only realized the absence of my internet presence when I sought to add a blog entry. You can imagine my distress (and contained anger) upon the discovery of my electronic demise.
After two weeks of moving the shelved domain to a new hosting site (Bluehost) I rescued by name ThomasGClark.
But what of the content, links, images, etc.? I never printed a “hardcopy”of the site? Why would I ever had needed that anyway? But if I had I would have had all the building blocks to start over
But nothing existed, or so I thought.
Starting from scratch would take months of redesign, reconstruction, and research. Frustration set in. And then a week ago I remember something on the internet called the WayBack Machine.
This lifesaver somehow keeps “copies” of now defunct websites. When I typed in ThomasGClark.net it returned several recent “hits”. Cautiously I clicked on April 2020 and like magic my former internet self appeared, including all the pages, blog entries, links and photos.
Wow! I was willing to pay for a copy of my website, but it’s for free. Yes Free!
So I have been doing the “copy and paste” thing, gladly I may add, to revive my existence.
It also gives me a chance to update some things, streamline the format and make the site more focused. I’m not bringing back all the former blog posts, just the relevant ones.
Ok now that we are both up to date, I’m getting back to my copying and pasting routine. Wish me luck. Tom