My latest book, released in June 2016. A generational memoir about coming of age in the Sixties and how the movements, culture, and events of that era influenced me and the rest of the Sixties Generation.

My first book, "As I Write This Letter" is about The Beatles from the fans' perspective. Over 150 fan essays and letters, fan artwork, and my narrative. Out of print, but can be found through amazon.com. To order just click the Amazon picture link to the left.

My 2nd book, "The Giant's Chair", came out as an e-book in 1999, and a softcover edition in 2005. It is a Sixties fable, and written specifically for those who lived during that time. See "The Giant's Chair" section of this website to read an excerpt from the book. To order, just click on the Amazon picture link to the left. Now available on Kindle and Nook.

This is the link to my 2nd book, "The Giant's Chair" at Author House. See "The Giant's Chair" section of this website to read an excerpt from the book. To order, just click on the AuthorHouse picture link on the left.

Article about my book, The Giant's Chair, and background about the location of the story. Article is from 2006.

Article about "The Giant's Chair" as it appeared in the Lansing Star, an online newspaper, in 2005.

This is an article about "The Giant's Chair" that appeared in the Ithaca Times, a weekly newspaper, in March 2006. As I recall the writer and I met at a local Ithaca bagel eatery and she interviewed me for about an hour. Very introspective, and quoted me accurately.

Essay about living in Danbury in 1960, published by the Danbury News-Times in 2010. For the longer, unabridged version of this article, see my original story in the "The Danbury Fair" section of this website.

My parody of Country Joe's song, published on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq.

My parody of the "Eve Of Destruction" appeared on the Common Dreams site in 2005.

My 25 year opposition to the commercial exploitation of Lennon and The Beatles in advertising, published in CounterPunch in 2009

My "in kind" response to the Vatican for actually publishing a Top Ten Rock album list. It appeared in Counterpunch in 2010.

The best Beatles fanzine of its kind. In circulation for over 35 years. Quality writing, amazing insights, wonderful personal accounts. New information and explanations of older information...The Beatles, over 40 years since their break-up...still unbelievably popular. My Beatlefan articles about the 1965 and 1966 Shea Stadium concerts, Concert for Bangladesh, 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper, review of Ringo's 2010 concert at Bethel Woods, and 40th anniversary of John Lennon's One-to-One concert appear in the "Beatles/Sixties Articles" and related sections of my website here. Also my article about remembering The Beatles arrival in America 50 years ago appears in Beatlefan's "Something New" blog. It is in the link below this one.

This is my article that appeared in Beatlefan Magazine's "Something New" blog on 2/8/14. It's a different perspective on remembering The Beatles arrival in the USA 50 years ago.

Dave Schwensen's new book, "The Beatles At Shea Stadium" is THE book of record about that historic concert of august 15, 1965. He has interviewed many of the attendees(including yours truly), for the book, and features never before seen photos of that concert. Click on this link to learn more. To see my memories of the 1965 Shea Stadium concert, click on the "Beatles/Sixties Articles" section of my website.

Bill Lauf is a superb singer/songwriter in the folk tradition. I am proud to say I've known Bill since our days at Danbury High School. He has had several albums released over the years. His newest, "For The Snow", just came out in January 2013. Click on to his website link here, read his bio, hear samples from his new CD, and buy it. You will be quite pleased.

Michael and I have been friends since our college days at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. Over the years, he has become a prolific writer of New England history. Click on the picture to the left for the link to his website. Among Michael's writings is his book, "Clueless In New England", about the mysterious Long Trail disappearances of young women in the first half of the 20th century.

The first book from my good friend, Steve Leshin. Steve has always had a great imagination. For many years during the late 70s and early 80s, we sent each other tape cassettes containing skits and humorous mayhem, including his Sherlock Holmes parody with detective Vladmir Winston. In "Vengeance of the Ripper", Steve combines his admiration for turn of the century England and America, by imagining Jack the Ripper showing up on the West coast of the United States, where he has a run-in with famed lawman, Wyatt Earp. Also see below for his second book, a collection of his published magazine cartoons, "Cartoon Madness". And look at the "Photos" section of this website for the cartoon drawings Steve did for the Catone family Christmas cards.

Steve and I have been good friends since meeting at work in 1973. A superior writer, and cartoonist, he has kept me laughing for years. Click here for a retrospective of his cartoons. Also click above for his Western tale of Wyatt Earp vs. Jack the Ripper, "Vengeance Of The Ripper". And see the "Photos" section of this website for the cartoon drawings Steve did for the Catone family Christmas cards.

I graduated from Danbury High School (Danbury CT) in 1968. Peter Stassa, Class of 1969, made this incredible video for the DHS Class of 1969's 40th Reunion in 2009. Anyone who attended high school anywhere in the USA during the late 60s and early 70s can identify with this video...the flavor, attitudes, clothing, hairstyles, events, and music...it's all there. The video runs for almost 25 minutes, and is well worth the view. Yours truly appears briefly in this video, during the song "All You Need Is Love", after the first verse when John Lennon sings "it's easy". I'm the guy in the back row of the chorus photo, on the right. Don't blink...you might miss it, as did I the first time I saw it.

It's about time someone wrote a book like this! The Sixties Generation is often trivialized and demonized, and said not to have accomplished anything after 1969. Professor Leonard Steinhorn proves the naysayers wrong, and shows the long lasting contributions and accomplishments of the generation which came of age in the Sixties.

Alan Canfora was one of the students wounded by gunfire from the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. He is the person in the famous photo of a student waving a flag with troops kneeling in front of him. His website is a great source for the history of that national tragedy as well as details about past and current investigations...including the recent discovery of an audio tape which reveals the National Guard troops were ordered to fire their guns that day. For all the information and news about what happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970, Alan Canfora's website is the one to view. See my article about my experiences of May 4, 1970 under the "Beatles/Sixties Articles" of my website.

Mark Holmes was a boy I knew back in the 1960s. Mark also grew up in the neighborhoods surrounding Rogers Park on the South Side of Danbury CT. He spent 8 years in the U.S. Coast Guard and has written a book, "Always Ready: Coast Guard Sea Stories From the 1970's" Check it out

My old Danbury friend, Mark Holmes, has just published his second book, "Artifact", a World War II novel with a plot about the Cold War starting in 1944 when a US B-24 flew into the Ukraine. Mark has dedicated "Artifact" to his father, who flew missions in a B-24 during the war.