Monthly Archives: December 2024
Welcome to Southwest Airlines Orlando “hub”
Southwest Airlines, the US’ largest domestic airline has flown to Orlando since 1996 and has carried the most passengers every single year at the airport since its merger with AirTran in 2013. But now with Southwest getting a makeover thanks in large measure to activist investor Elliot, Orlando is going to look more like a […]
Florida is where runaway slaves made a stand
We’re sharing this excerpt from my most recent book, The American Conquest of Florida. The ultimate showdown over the future of Florida would take place on the banks of the Apalachicola River in Florida’s panhandle. The site is in present day Franklin County. John and Thomas Forbes The Forbes brothers were Scottish traders that took control […]
The Long-Short Game in Syria
The US, Israel and Turkey have accelerated bombing in Syria since the departure of Bashar Assad. Israel claims it has destroyed Syria’s navy and increased its military footprint in Southern Syria. Israel claims no pretense of soft power. Should the US do the same? To date, it has decided it should. It has struck at […]
Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida- A second batch…the forward
This book is published by our publishing Arm. Order the book here! It’s difficult for modern Floridians to conceive what prohibition was like even with dry counties in the parts of the state persisting into this millennium. It was a different time – a time of intense factionalism and “wets versus dries” defining everything about […]
The 1968 GOP Convention and Miami riots
Less famous than what happened in Chicago at the DNC later that summer , the 1968RNC riots doomed Claude Kirk’s national political ambitions.
Lincoln’s Ghost wins critical acclaim
“Even a president as down to earth as Harry Truman sometimes wondered if the White House was haunted. Is it? In Lincoln’s Ghost, Robert Buccellato goes searching for the answer. Along the way he brings to life the many strange, weird, and paranormal things our commanders in chief and their families have encountered. Combining rigorous […]
Holiday gift idea: Lincoln’s Ghost
A haunted White House, a naked Prime Minister, an ancient Indian Curse, and a never-ending ghostly party. The definitive collection of over two hundred years worth of Presidential ghost stories. The perfect mix of history, humor, speculation and campfire style ghost stories. Lincoln’s Ghost: Our Haunted Presidency published by the Florida Squeeze is presented in an engaging manner […]
American Conquest of Florida: Holiday Book idea
This is the final book in the Albion Florida series and we cover the period from 1784 to 1825. The Spanish re-assumed control of East Florida in 1784 when the British ceded the colony. West Florida had been under Spanish administration since 1781. The next few decades would be engulfed in tumult with incursions into Florida […]
The Florida Squeeze 