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THE LODGE-Winter
Summer
The Great Room
The Dining Room
Come one come, all to the lodge, for great winter sport and comfort. Cozy up to the fireplace or dine on fine food and beverage, but more important, have a good time and fine conversation with friends of old and new. Come one, come all and enjoy the ambience. You won't be disappointed.
This is the synopsis of what I read, I think the book could be good.
BookPage Review:
Grisham looks at small-town justice
The obituary in the New York Times wasn't particularly long or prominently displayed, but something about it drew the attention of writer John Grisham. The Times article on December 9, 2004, reported the death of Ronald Williamson, an Oklahoma man who had narrowly escaped execution, only to die of liver disease 10 years later. What fascinated Grisham, he would later reveal, were the similarities between Williamson's background and his own. Both men had aimed for careers in professional baseball—though Grisham eventually gave up on sports, turned to the law and became a best-selling author of legal suspense. Williamson's life trajectory was equally dramatic, but in the opposite direction. A star pitcher and catcher on his Ada, Oklahoma, high school team, Williamson was drafted by the Oakland A's in 1971 and spent six years in the minor leagues before an arm injury ended his career. Returning home to Ada, Williamson moved in with his mother and began to show signs of mental illness.
In 1982, Williamson's hometown was rocked by the brutal rape and murder of cocktail waitress Debra Sue Carter, whose body was found in her garage apartment. The case went unsolved until 1987, when Williamson and a friend, Dennis Fritz, were arrested and charged with the murder. The main witness against the two was a man named Glen Gore, who claimed that the pair had been at the club where Carter worked on the night of her slaying. Williamson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, while Fritz received a life sentence.
Five days before his scheduled execution in 1994, a public defender succeeded in winning a stay on the grounds that Williamson had ineffective counsel at trial. When DNA testing revealed that physical evidence from the crime scene matched Glen Gore rather than Williamson, he was exonerated and freed from prison in 1999; five years later he died in a nursing home from cirrhosis of the liver.
"Not in my most creative hour could I imagine a story as compelling as Ron Williamson's," says Grisham, who bought rights to the story from Williamson's family shortly after reading the Times obit. His new book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, is his first nonfiction effort, a look at the crime, the trial and Williamson's eventual release. If Grisham's publisher, Doubleday, has any concerns about promoting a work of nonfiction, they are certainly not showing it, instead stressing the similarities between The Innocent Man and Grisham's fiction. "It's a natural story for John to tell," says Doubleday president Stephen Rubin. "It has many of the same themes present in his novels—legal suspense, the death penalty, wrongful conviction, even baseball. It's the ultimate true legal thriller."
BookPage Review:
Grisham looks at small-town justice
The obituary in the New York Times wasn't particularly long or prominently displayed, but something about it drew the attention of writer John Grisham. The Times article on December 9, 2004, reported the death of Ronald Williamson, an Oklahoma man who had narrowly escaped execution, only to die of liver disease 10 years later. What fascinated Grisham, he would later reveal, were the similarities between Williamson's background and his own. Both men had aimed for careers in professional baseball—though Grisham eventually gave up on sports, turned to the law and became a best-selling author of legal suspense. Williamson's life trajectory was equally dramatic, but in the opposite direction. A star pitcher and catcher on his Ada, Oklahoma, high school team, Williamson was drafted by the Oakland A's in 1971 and spent six years in the minor leagues before an arm injury ended his career. Returning home to Ada, Williamson moved in with his mother and began to show signs of mental illness.
In 1982, Williamson's hometown was rocked by the brutal rape and murder of cocktail waitress Debra Sue Carter, whose body was found in her garage apartment. The case went unsolved until 1987, when Williamson and a friend, Dennis Fritz, were arrested and charged with the murder. The main witness against the two was a man named Glen Gore, who claimed that the pair had been at the club where Carter worked on the night of her slaying. Williamson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, while Fritz received a life sentence.
Five days before his scheduled execution in 1994, a public defender succeeded in winning a stay on the grounds that Williamson had ineffective counsel at trial. When DNA testing revealed that physical evidence from the crime scene matched Glen Gore rather than Williamson, he was exonerated and freed from prison in 1999; five years later he died in a nursing home from cirrhosis of the liver.
"Not in my most creative hour could I imagine a story as compelling as Ron Williamson's," says Grisham, who bought rights to the story from Williamson's family shortly after reading the Times obit. His new book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, is his first nonfiction effort, a look at the crime, the trial and Williamson's eventual release. If Grisham's publisher, Doubleday, has any concerns about promoting a work of nonfiction, they are certainly not showing it, instead stressing the similarities between The Innocent Man and Grisham's fiction. "It's a natural story for John to tell," says Doubleday president Stephen Rubin. "It has many of the same themes present in his novels—legal suspense, the death penalty, wrongful conviction, even baseball. It's the ultimate true legal thriller."
Don't recall ever even driving through there. If our travels should ever take us that way, I'm really not concerned.
Cricket I should go to bed, I have a lot to do before i leave in the morning. I'll say nitey nite and shall try and catch ya here on Friday. :-x
Hi there Cricket. Today went just fine. It was a preliminary thing just to ask me if there was anything I wanted to add to the complaint. It was fairly difficult for me at times but I got by. We have to wait now till they interview other people and a report should be submitted to me in a few weeks.
I see.
Well, we've got rain & storms headed our way. We really do need the rain though.
Well, we've got rain & storms headed our way. We really do need the rain though.
I will wait and see what the report contains and where we shall go from there. I was exhausted by the time we were finished. We went for lunch at a chinese restaurant and had a few drinks there and chatted over what had gone on! Then we went back to mums and collected our stuff and were home for around 5pm. Our weather is pretty mild for the time of year, it isn't cold. I'm going to turn our heating in the living room down tonight.
Our temps have been extremely warm for this time of year. That's what causing the storms.
Took Rubye shopping today & she's such a tiny thing that I thought the strong winds were going to carry her way! (Think she also thought the same thing a time or two!) :^O
Took Rubye shopping today & she's such a tiny thing that I thought the strong winds were going to carry her way! (Think she also thought the same thing a time or two!) :^O
