March 2009 - Richard M. Langworth

Lectures and Book Signings

18 March 2009 Comments 0 Comments

LECTURES AND BOOK SIGNINGS

10 May 2010: Toronto. Annual Dinner, International Churchill Society of Canada.

11 September 2009: Churchill For Today: “Shall We All Commit Suicide?” and Churchill’s other futurist essays: panelist and moderator. 26th International Churchill Conference, Westin St. Francis Hotel.

7 May 2009, Boston: English-Speaking Union and New England Churchillians, Union Club, 6PM.

3 May 2009, Detroit: Winston Churchill Society of Michigan, Dearborn Inn, 5:30PM.

2 May 2009, Chicago: Churchill Friends of Greater Chicago, Fairmont Hotel, 6PM.

30 November 2008, Dallas: “Churchill by Himself.” North Texas Churchllians, Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. Presentation and book signing.

30 November 2007, Boston: “Churchill and Ireland: Notable Pronouncements on Ireland, 1901-1948.” New…

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“Where does the family start?”

12 March 2009 Comments 0 Comments

We would like permission to use the following quotation in a family history book we are publishing in the summer. “Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.” The book will be published in Hebrew and English, hardback, 40 pages, colour, initial print run 1,500 in each language. —J.B.

Thanks for asking, but you don’t need permission from the Churchill literary interests to reprint a single brief quotation. However, your punctuation is a little off. It should read (with exclamation mark)…

“Where does the family start?…

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Churchill in New Orleans

12 March 2009 Comments 0 Comments

I’m doing research for a video tour book on lesser known places in New Orleans. I recently heard that Winston Churchill made a visit here in 1932. Is this true? -B.K.

Yes, Churchill was in New Orleans on his 1932 lecture tour, between 16 February and 11 March, during the last hectic leg of his abbreviated schedule. (In December he was nearly killed by a car in New York and had recuperated in the Bahamas through 22 January.) On 11 March he boarded the Majestic in New York and sailed home. His New Orleans appearance would likely have been around February 18th-22nd, or just after the 23rd when he was in Atlanta, since train schedules would have had him in both cities within a day or so of each other.…

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Churchill’s Collected Works

11 March 2009 Comments 6 Comments

In the 1990s I found and began binding several hundred remaining sheets in leather as well as vellum, but those too are now out of sight. Also, the general editor of the series, the late Fred Woods, edited many of the texts (making changes discussed in detail in the Connoisseur's Guide), which makes them useless as a source of Churchill's original words. The great advantage of the enterprise was the four-volume Collected Essays, the only collection of Churchill’s periodical articles (other than those reprinted in his books) ever published in volume form, with a fine introduction by the late Michael Wolff.

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The Churchill Copyright

6 March 2009 Comments 0 Comments

To answer frequently asked questions, here are the rules governing copyright to the books, articles, speeches and papers of Winston S. Churchill:

1. Non-Commercial Use

The copyright in Sir Winston Churchill’s papers, literary works and those papers of which he was the author, did not form part of the 1995 purchase by the British Government, but remains (under the terms of Sir Winston’s will) the property of his family, except where it has been separately assigned. No charge is made in the case of reproduction for academic research. Certain educational or non-profit organizations such as the Hillsdale College Churchill Project are granted the right to reproduce (with acknowledgement) copyright material without charge.…

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More Obama and the Churchill Bust

6 March 2009 Comments 2 Comments

First and foremost, the Daily Telegraph did not connect Obama's grandfather's jailing with the Mau Mau rebellion. The Telegraph report is very careful on this point: "It was during Churchill's second premiership that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Among Kenyans allegedly tortured by the colonial regime included one Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather."

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“The Last Lion” Volume III is Published

5 March 2009 Comments 98 Comments

Paul Reid has not written a biography, but rather an old-style “life & times” narrative with guns and bullets, political conniving, oft-repeated (but worth repeating) anecdotes, lovely touches of the personal, and the most important asset—a hero. It is a nice cruise down a rather lengthy river that you’ve sailed before. Still, it is a lovely and literate view of familiar territory that massages old stories, nurtures legends, and points gently to miscalculations and mistakes of the hero—who flawed though he was, remains a hero.

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President Obama and the Churchill Bust – Out

4 March 2009 Comments 0 Comments

James Kirkup reported in the March 2nd Telegraph that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was presenting the President with "a first edition of Sir Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill." ("Seven volumes" was a typo; Sir Martin was short Volume V, but Chartwell Booksellers in New York City helped him out and the full eight volumes were delivered.) So now, effectively, "Winston is Back" in the White House, and President Obama has arguably more Churchilliana than President Bush had.

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Eleuthera Byways: The Queen’s Baths

3 March 2009 Comments 1 Comment

PoOn the Queen’s Highway a few miles north of Gregory Town, about 300 yards before the Glass Window bridge, pull off the road across from a sandy track leading up the hill toward the Atlantic on your right. You can’t miss it: the Ministry of Tourism has recently erected a marker. You’ve arrived at the Queen’s Baths.

Walk up toward the Atlantic as the bush thins out and the sand takes over. Soon the sand thins and you’re walking on bare coral. Watch your step to avoid the uneven surface and pockmarked holes. As you approach the ocean, work your way to the left (north), keeping Harbour Island on the horizon ahead of you.…

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Eleuthera Byways: Edwin’s Fishlake

3 March 2009 Comments 1 Comment

First published in The Eleutheran, September 2008; Edwin’s Turtle Lake Marine Preserve, with a fine new dock and the bottle shack restored in December 2014.

Edwin’s of old

Three miles south of Governor’s Harbour, on the right side at the S-bends as the road plunges toward Palmetto Point, is a large saltwater lake. Passersby who stop to investigate will find the remains of a curious shed built of mortar and beer bottles, the amber, green and clear glass sorted by colour, bottoms facing out. A few yards away, obscured by bush and weathered by the years, was a wooden sign whose words were just legible:

Edwin’s Fishing Lake

Established March 10th 1954

The First Fishlake of the Bahamas

Over 20,000 fish of 32 varieties have

been placed in this lake.…

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