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My February birthday fund-raising campaign for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone that so generously donated. You don’t have to give anything to read my work, and yet so many of you donate or subscribe. I can’t express what that support means to me.

 

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Jayne Mansfield – Concerto No. 6 in A Minor

An evening pause: By Vivaldi, and performed on the Ed Sullivan Show 1957.

Hat tip Judd Clark.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

5 comments

  • Steve H.

    Wow! I had previously thought her talents were purely visual!

  • Her death was the driving force behind the requirement of ‘under rider’ bars on the rear of semi-truck trailers. Sometimes still known as ‘Mansfield bars’.

  • wayne

    Steve H–
    Look up her death, as Blair alludes it was a fairly gruesome car-accident.
    She was also the mother of Mariska Hargitay (from Law and Order) who was in the back seat with her siblings during the crash.

  • Htos1av

    Don’t you JUST love “Star Trek” types of girls? A 10.5 on the “scale’ and can jam like Wagner? I really miss that. Mine worked at the CBS facility in Terre Haute. My “side” gig every weekend was music.

  • wayne

    Htos1av-
    here we go….a Star Trek Girl!

    Carole Shelyne
    “The Girl with the Horn Rim Glasses”
    Shindig, 1965
    https://youtu.be/CcI9zu97gbw
    2:49

    Carolyne H. Barry, aka Carole Shelyne; (born Carole Stuppler; July 20, 1943 – June 16, 2015)

    Performed in over 400 national television commercials, 32 theatrical productions, and approximately 100 television shows and films, including in the Star Trek episode “Arena” (S01 E18) and the Next Generation episode “Home Soil” (S01 E18).

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