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ROADS OF THE FLYOVER by Peter Nolan Smith

April 16, 2021 – 12:55 pm

In the Spring of 2009 the old crew met at Miguel Abreau’s Gallery on Orchard Street to honor Brock Dundee’s documentary about Afghanistan that he had filmed for the UK MoD. The Scot had flown in helicopters to battle sites and crossed the mountains on foot with the assassins of the SAS. At dinner Dannatt […]

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ROADS OF THE FLYOVER by Peter Nolan Smith CHAPTER 3

January 3, 2017 – 3:17 pm

To the west black clouds towered over the brown spring plain. Hot flashes strobed through the thunderheads. A swirling finger touched the earth. “The Dakota Indians called tornadoes iYumi which means bastard son of Face and Wind “An appropriate name and this one doesn’t look friendly either.” Brock aimed his movie camera at the roiling […]

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ROADS OF THE FLYOVER Chapter 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

December 30, 2016 – 8:10 am

The Old crew met at Miguel Abreau’s Gallery on Orchard Street to honor Brock Dundee’s documentary about Afghanistan that he had filmed for the UK MoD. The Scot had flown in helicopters to battle sites and crossed the mountains on foot with the assassins of the SAS. At dinner Dannatt joked that his old friend […]

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ROADS OF THE FLYOVER Part 3 by Peter Nolan Smith

August 14, 2015 – 5:56 pm

Threatening clouds roiled over the Iowa cornfields. Monstrous flashes strobed through the thunderheads. The still air was charged with electricity. “Have you ever seen a tornado?” Brock asked with his video recorder out the window. “Only in WIZARD OF OZ.” Twisters killed people and I stepped on the gas. Brock studied the map. We hadn’t […]

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LIVE LONG AND PROSPER IOWA by Peter Nolan Smith

April 26, 2015 – 12:06 pm

Wilbur Harrison had a hit with KANSAS CITY. My schoolmate, Joe Fielder, traveled to the Paris of the Plains in 1965. The police caught him in St. Louis. He escaped through the bathroom window and my 14 year-old friend reached KC the next day, where he ordered a steak and then rode a Greyhound back […]

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