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Articles of Interest

Places Where I'ved Lived

Connecticut Greenwich, Connecticut Cos Cob, Connecticut Bridgeport, Connecticut South Norwalk Southwest Florida Fort Myers, Florida Lehigh Acres Wiregrass Region-Georgia Moultrie

Summer Vacations Acadia National Park Bar Harbor Cape Cod Frenchman Bay Maine Mount Desert Island Schoodic Peninsula

General Interests

American Revolution Cape Cod Colonial history of the United States Cthulhu Mythos Dieselpunk Dogs Edwardian era Historic New England History of Connecticut Jack the Ripper Lovecraft Country Mind's Eye (series) Mount Airy Lodge Mystic Seaport New England Northeastern United States Steampunk Victorian era Literature Alternate history English literature Gaslamp fantasy Gothic fiction Historical fiction Historical period drama Lovecraftian horror Mystery fiction Science fiction

Food Baking British cuisine Cooking Cuisine of New England Cuisine of New York City Italian-American cuisine Soul food Disasters Cocoanut Grove fire General Slocum Gulliver's nightclub fire Halifax Explosion Hartford circus fire Iroquois Theatre fire RMS Lusitania RMS Titanic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire Games Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition Al-Qadim BattleTech Forgotten Realms Greyhawk Ravenloft Second Life

Roleplay (Diesel 1940)

1939 New York World's Fair American music during World War II American propaganda during World War II American Women's Voluntary Services Art Deco British Empire Charlie Chan Classical Hollywood cinema Film noir German Empire Harbor Defense Command Harbor Defenses of New York Home front during World War II Interwar period List of United States Navy shore activities during World War II Military history of African Americans Mr. Moto Mr. Wong

Office of Civilian Defense Office of Strategic Services Outline of the Ottoman Empire Pacific Ocean theater of World War II Pulp magazine Rationing in the United States Retrofuturism Stage Door Canteen Streamline Moderne U.S. Harbor Defense Command US Naval Advance Bases United States home front during World War II United States Atlantic Fleet United States Pacific Fleet World War One

My Family History

• Bullard Havens Technical High School - Class of 1982
• Clan Hall - My partner's clan
• Clan Lamont - My clan
• Dirck Storm - My Eighth-Great-Grandfather
  • Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
  • Philipsburg Manor House
  • Sleepy Hollow, New York - The ancestral home of the Storm Family
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Dutchess County, New York
• Greenwich Avenue Historic District
• Loyal American Regiment - Had three Loyalist ancestors part of this regiment.
• New York Rocket Battalion - My Great Grandfather's unit
• Putnam Cottage
• Thomas Storm - Capt. of the 2nd Dutchess County Militia (1775-1777), my Sixth-Great-Grandfather
  • 2nd New York Regiment
  • Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House
  • Tarrytown, New York
• USS Gyatt (DD-712) - My Dad's ship
• Westchester County, New York

Favorite Stores from the 1970s

Department Stores Bradlees Caldor's Korvette's Gimbels Two Guys Grant's Electronics Crazy Eddie Radio Shack

Five and Dime Woolworth's McCrory's Supermarkets Finast Grand Union Pathmark A&P Waldbaum's

Authors

Charles Dickens Classics Illustrated H. G. Wells H. P. Lovecraft Jules Verne Ray Bradbury Robert Louis Stevenson Steven King Washington Irving

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe C. S. Forester - Horatio Hornblower C. S. Lewis - Narnia Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord Of The Rings Robert E. Howard - Conan

Favorite Movies

List of blaxploitation films List of fantasy films List of films featuring giant monsters List of horror films List of mystery films List of science fiction films Horror Movie Company American International Pictures Amicus Productions Hammer Film Productions ITC Entertainment Tigon British Film Productions Toho Studios Universal Horror

List of film noir titles

British TV Shows

Crime Drama 24 Hours in Police Custody A Touch of Frost Agatha Christie's Marple Agatha Christie's Poirot Bergerac (TV series) Father Brown (2013 TV series) Foyle's War Grantchester (TV series) Inspector Morse (TV series) Midsomer Murders Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Prime Suspect Ripper Street River Rosemary and Thyme Sherlock (TV series) Shetland (TV series) The Mrs Bradley Mysteries Vera (TV series) Waking The Dead Wire in the Blood

British Comedy Absolutely Fabulous Are You Being Served? As Time Goes By (TV series) Grace & Favour Keeping Up Appearances Last of the Summer Wine Mrs. Brown's Boys My Family QI The Vicar of Dibley Waiting for God (TV series) Yes Minister Drama Downton Abbey Hornblower (TV series) Poldark (2015 TV series) Sharpe (TV series) Victoria (UK TV series) Vienna Blood (TV series)

Favorite TV Shows

Sci Fi Channel Farscape Ghost Hunters Mystery Science Theater 3000 Food Network Ace of Cakes Barefoot Contessa Boy Meets Grill Chopped (TV series) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Dinner: Impossible East Meets West (TV series) Emeril Live Essence of Emeril Everyday Italian Food Network Challenge Iron Chef America Iron Chef Restaurant: Impossible Two Fat Ladies UPN Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Enterprise Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Voyager Cartoon Network Outlaw Star Batman Beyond Batman: The Animated Series Dragon Ball Z G-Force: Guardians of Space Mobile Suit Gundam Superman: The Animated Series Tenchi Muyo! The Big O Voltron

TNT Angel (TV series) Babylon 5 Bones (TV series) Castle (TV series) Charmed Law & Order MonsterVision NYPD Blue USA Network CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Hercules: The Legendary Journeys House JAG La Femme Nikita (TV series) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Miami Vice NCIS USA Up All Night Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Xena: Warrior Princess Netflix Blue Bloods (TV series) Forensic Files Locke & Key (TV series) Penny Dreadful (TV series) Planet Earth (2006 TV series) Star Trek: The Original Series Stranger Things The Big Family Cooking Showdown The Blue Planet The Crown (TV series) The Great British Bake Off The Last Kingdom (TV series)

Favorite NY TV Memories

WCBS-TV Channel 2 Hallmark Hall of Fame Kojak The CBS Late Movie The Merv Griffin Show The Mike Douglas Show WNBC-TV Channel 4 Police Story (1973 TV series) Star Trek: The Original Series The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast The Midnight Special (TV series) The NBC Mystery Movie The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson WNEW-TV Channel 5 Creature Features (WNEW) Rankin/Bass Productions Romper Room Wonderama WABC-TV Channel 7 ABC Movie of the Week The ABC 4:30 Movie The ABC Sunday Night Movie Dark Shadows Don Kirshner's Rock Concert Schoolhouse Rock! Wide World of Sports (US TV series) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) WOR-TV Channel 9 Fright Night (TV show) WWWF Championship Wrestling Holiday Film Festival Soul Train WPIX Channel 11 Chiller Theatre The Yule Log Space: 1999 UFO The Honeymooners Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Twilight Zone One Step Beyond (TV series) The Outer Limits Gigantor Speed Racer

WNET-TV Channel 13 Masterpiece Theatre Upstairs, Downstairs I, Claudius (TV series) All Creatures Great and Small (TV series) Jeeves and Wooster The Six Wives of Henry VIII (BBC TV series) Poldark (1975 TV series) The Duchess of Duke Street Pride and Prejudice (1980 TV series) Edward & Mrs. Simpson Mystery! The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV series) Lovejoy Rumpole of the Bailey Miss Marple (TV series) Reilly, Ace of Spies Father Brown (1974 TV series) Monty Python's Flying Circus The French Chef Cosmos: A Personal Voyage The Civil War (TV series) NOVA (TV series) Great Performances This Old House The New Yankee Workshop Great Chefs Evening at Pops Third Doctor Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Doctor Who Reading Rainbow