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Post by herosrest on Apr 4, 2023 11:22:20 GMT -5
I wasn't afraid of him or what he thought. I found him broadly pleasant though prone to arrogance when he was, for sure, deeply troubled and at war. His study helped him and he got where he was going. There's an online discussion he gave floating around, where he was at his best and good nature to the fore. He could however blow it all up and didn't realise he was not the only one with problems, or suffering. Also............. His work was good, and very well thought of. Timing is a huge clue with the guy. Regards.
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Post by herosrest on Dec 7, 2022 8:19:29 GMT -5
His legacy through the body of work left to us is substantantial and admired. His fascination with timing was poigniantly relevant and perhaps, driven. He found fools difficult to suffer but unfortunately I am not one and our relationship (online) bittered eventually because I found him bitter. That said, I understand there are many who respected and admired the guy and his studied works. Rest in Peace, fred.
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Post by herosrest on Mar 29, 2021 4:46:52 GMT -5
Braves of all Colors by Robert Ege. Robert J. Ege was a writer and author who lived at 1904 2nd Ave. N. in Great Falls and 50 years ago helped start an organization called “Little Bighorn Associates, Inc.” “We study the life and times of George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn,” said Bill Blake of Woodstock, Ga., the group’s current chairman. “The vast majority of our members are very passionate about Custer. In fact, I think there are some of us within the organization that are still fighting the battle.” Ege, who died here in 1977 and was cremated, was among the handful who started the group and for a time wrote its newsletters. Bruce Liddic, who has belonged to the organization for nearly 50 years, knew the Great Falls man well. “He was a writer and also a radio commentator,” Liddic said. “He was very civic-minded, with (three sons and a daughter). His wife (Dorothy) was for a time the executive director of the YWCA in Great Falls.” Liddic, of Lancaster, Pa., is now director emeritus of the Little Bighorn Associates. “I know that the first issue of our newsletter was 20 printed copies, and it was done on a stencil machine in Bob Ege’s kitchen there in Great Falls,” he said. “In 1966, we had 12 members. Now we have 1,000, give or take, and we meet all over the country.” Why, Blake was asked, has the group grown through the years? That’s easy, he said.............
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Post by herosrest on Mar 21, 2019 16:57:22 GMT -5
NEXT CAGB GATHERING Our next 'Gathering' takes place on Saturday, 18th May 2019 in London, members of the English Westerners' Society have been invited to attend. The guest speaker will be Michael Donahue who is not only an accomplished artist but for two decades has been a seasonal National Park Ranger at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. His first book Drawing Battle Lines-The Map Testimony of Custer's Last Fight was published in 2008 and his latest book Where the Rivers Ran Red: The Indian Fights of George Armstrong Custer in 2018. Members of the CAGB who wish to obtain a copy of the latest book can place an order with the Secretary of the CAGB, Kevin Galvin. This will be the paperback version and priced at $36.95 (approximately £29 but subject to currency fluctuations, postage and packing will be confirmed once new UK postal rates are published). Please note Mike will only be able to bring a small number of books with him so members need to order their copy early and orders will be based on the first come, first served principle. www.english-westerners-society.org.uk/CAGB%20Index.htm
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Post by herosrest on Dec 12, 2017 19:26:16 GMT -5
BG reportsplan would create new visitor center, make room for artifacts currently in Arizona MIKE FERGUSON mferguson@billingsgazette.com Dec 4, 2017 The visitor center at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is a cinderblock building constructed in 1952. A National Park Service Environmental Assessment calls for construction of a new visitor center in the footprint of the existing one as well as the return of tens of thousands of battlefield artifacts. LARRY MAYER, Gazette Staff Park officials are accepting comments on the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument General Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Assessment through Jan. 4, 2018. The only scheduled meeting on the EA will be held via a conference call from 2 p.m. through 4 p.m. Dec. 14. Phone 866-714-0783 and use participant code 4244998#. “Right now we are in the information-gathering stage. We want to hear anything we may or may not be aware of,” said Wayne Challoner, superintendent at the Little Bighorn Battlefield monument for the past month. Visitation at Little Bighorn has been up in recent years — from about 278,000 in 2013 to more than 332,000 in 2016, an increase of almost 20 percent.
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