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Eliot Kleinberg
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Retired journalist. Author, lecturer, blogger.
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Peace River: Sylvania Plantation, Marianna. Florida's Civil War governor said death would be preferable to occupation. He meant it.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Is there anything more shameless than an author pitching his book on Black Friday?
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November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Peace River: Tallahassee. When Union troops marched into Florida's capital, there was no government to greet them.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Peace River: In Jacksonville, soldiers saw ghosts stagger out of the mists. They were the men of Andersonville.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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"Something Went Horribly Wrong." A blog about better writing. #SWHW. Today: Pass the stuffing! Visit ekfla.com/blog. And we go to the video archives for Segment 95: Even more hiding in plain sight. youtu.be/tIDat7o2efM?...
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Peace River: Atlanta was the great city of the Confederacy. Until it wasn't.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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EK talkin' Peace River and Civil War in Florida:
Dec. 4, 1pm, Elliott Museum, Stuart. hsmc-fl.com/calendar/civ...
Dec. 9, 6pm, Delray Beach Historical Society, Old School Square, delraybeachhistory.org/events/herit...
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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EK talked Civil War in Florida and Peace River Nov. 19 at Palm Beach County Library, West Boynton branch. Bring me to your group! Visit ekfla.com/talks.
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Peace River: In 1865, teenagers and grizzled Seminole War veterans held off Union invaders and saved Tallahassee. For at least a few weeks.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Peace River: At this spot in downtown Baltimore, six days after Fort Sumter, a pro-South mob attacked U.S. National Guardsmen. Now it really was a civil war.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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EK talked WW2 in Florida 11/16 at Sulphur Springs Museum, Tampa (Photo courtesy Art Fyvolent). Book me for a talk for your group! www.ekfla.com/talks.
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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EK talkin' Civil War in Florida and Peace River twice this week!
Tuesday: 2pm, PB County Library, W Boynton Branch pbclibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68c1b...
Thursday: 6pm, Boca Raton City Library bocalibrary.libcal.com/event/15454116
Be there!
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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"Something Went Horribly Wrong." A blog about better writing. #SWHW. Today: We revisit Segment 25: Disqualifiers, Part Three: Anatomy. www.ekfla.com/blog/2020/12...
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP Many incidents in the Adventures of Nate Moran series take place in the Everglades. Even in the shadow of one of the great urban centers, it remains a terra incognita, a no-man’s land, and a place shrouded in mystery. www.ekfla.com/books/https/wwwekflacom/natemoran-rnm52
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. Ernest Hemingway house in Key West. In The Adventures of Nate Moran, a story line in the novel The Wreck of the Peter Carey is inspired by two iconic, and unconventional, writers: Hemingway and Dashiel Hammett. www.ekfla.com/books/the-wreck-of-the-peter-carey-azwnr
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Trip! #EKROADTRIP. People come to this grotto at Saint Mary Star of the Sea in Key West, to pray hurricanes away. In the Miami police detective series The Adventures of Nate Moran, in The Treasure of Indian Key, Nate catches up to bad guys here. www.ekfla.com/books/the-treasure-of-indian-key-4en2l
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Peace River: At the Willard Hotel, in Washington, people gathered in February 1861 to try to stop the slide to Civil War.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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EK road trip! #EKROADTRIP Near Islamorada stands the monument to the great 1935 Labor Day hurricane. In the 1920s Miami police detective series The Adventures of Nate Moran, this storm figures in the novel The Wreck of the Peter Carey. www.ekfla.com/books/the-wreck-of-the-peter-carey-azwnr
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. A murder The Treasure of Indian Key is associated with this mysterious place: Coral Castle.https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/11/21/coral-castle-mysterious-attraction-built-monument-lost-love/8617410002/ www.ekfla.com/books/the-treasure-of-indian-key-4en2l
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIPI Cape Florida St Pk, Key Biscayne. Offshore: One-of-a-kind collection of structures: Stiltsville, where an arrest, and a murder, take place in my upcoming Adventures of Nate Moran novel, The Wreck of the Peter Carey. www.ekfla.com/books/the-wreck-of-the-peter-carey-azwnr
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. This corner in Davie marks a crime against humanity: the lynching of Rubin Stacy. dunnhistory.com/the-lynching... It inspired a horrific incident in the Adventures of Nate Moran novel The Wreck of the Peter Carey. www.ekfla.com/books/the-wreck-of-the-peter-carey-azwnr
The Lynching of Rubin Stacy | Dunn History
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November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. Bahia Mar Yacht Club in Fort Lauderdale. One of the characters in The Adventures of Nate Moran novel Hypocrite’s Row is inspired by the violent story of the Gulf Stream Pirate. www.ekfla.com/books#/hypocrites-row/
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. Site of the original Lauderdale marina, where an ugly murder aboard a yacht inspired a storyline in the upcoming Adventures of Nate Moran novel Midnight Pass. www.ekfla.com/books/midnight-pass-grm3z
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. A trip to the glorious Fla Keys once a year is therapy. 2 days in S Miami-Dade Cty and the Keys to shoot videos related to Civil War novel Peace River and Miami police detective series, The Adventures of Nate Moran. www.ekfla.com/books/https/wwwekflacom/natemoran-rnm52
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Peace River: Memorial to James Buchanan, who showed cluelessness and impotence as the nation raced toward Civil War.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM