
I followed the Courtneys and the Ballantynes, and then came River God. I was immediately immersed in historical fiction the like of which I have never experienced throughout the thirty or more years since that holiday. When The Lion Feeds was my introduction to this most diligent of writers. I needed something to read, and there were several paperbacks left behind in our rented villa. Amtrak officials said last week, that the service could only be continued if West Virginia and Maryland each agree to fund one third of the operating losses for the route.I was first introduced to Wilbur Smith’s writing several years ago while laid up with my leg in plaster halfway through a holiday in Lanzarote. The service, running between Washington and Parkersburg, W.Va., had been scheduled to be discontinued Saturday by the National Rail Passenger Corporation, which has cited high operating losses as the reason for its decision. At his home in Walkersville this week, Flora related the events and thoughts that shaped his six year.īrunswick will be "virtually isolated" if Amtrak doesn't approve an extension of the commuter train to Washington, a state official said late Wednesday. Flora awoke in the jungle on July 22, 1967, to begin nearly six years of imprisonment in Vietnam. Carroll Edward Flora plummeted into the trees. Three hundred feet up, two of the rescue seats broke from the cable and Sgt. Army helicopter hovered over the Ashau Valley west of the city of Hue lifting three paratroopers out of the dense jungle.

A large number of people were participants in the film and these of course want to see themselves as others see them.


Hundreds of Fredericktonians crowded into the City Opera House at the four shows. No drama of the silver screen that has appeared at local movie houses created more enthusiasm than "Within the Gates of Frederick," the local scenario which played before packed houses Wednesday afternoon and night at the City Opera House.
