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May 31, 2016
Key West 2016: Hemingway Would Hate It
Once upon a time Key West was known for its fishing, sea salt refining, and salvaging operations. It was also the largest and wealthiest city in Florida. Today, Key West is primarily known as a trap for tourists—hordes of them. In fact, last year some four million tourists ascended on the 7.4 square mile island ... Read more...
May 26, 2016
A Pilgrimage to Hemingway’s Key West Abode
The house at 907 Whitehead Street in the heart of Old Town Key West looks about the same as it did when Pulitzer and Nobel-Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway lived there from 1931 to 1940. But that’s where the similarity ends. The 165-year-old limestone two-story house with its wrap-around veranda and lush gardens of coconut ... Read more...
May 24, 2016
Caribbean Vacation, Part 2: Shore Excursions
One of the best things about cruises is getting off the ship and strolling on terra firma. In our case, terra firma meant St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands; Tortola, the British Virgin Islands; and Nassau, the Bahamas. I can only imagine what the local populations thought as the mammoth S S Norwegian Escape pulled ... Read more...
May 23, 2016
Caribbean Vacation, Part 1
One of the things I enjoyed doing while traveling the world as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune was writing stories for the paper’s once-prodigious and highly-respected travel section. Writing travel stories provided me with a change of pace and allowed me to focus on the where in addition to the why and the what ... Read more...
May 2, 2016
Test Your Knowledge of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War ended 41 years ago on April 30. For those of us who lived through it and the turmoil it created in the United States, it still seems like yesterday. For those of you who view the war as ancient history, here’s a chance to test your knowledge. Take this test to see ... Read more...
May 1, 2016
After The Fall of Saigon: A Retrospective
[This is a follow-up to the story I posted yesterday on the 41st anniversary of the Fall of Saigon in 1975. ) After I and several dozen others were evacuated April 29th, 1975 from the hulking Military Assistance Command-Vietnam building at Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut airbase I filed my final story from the U.S.S. Blue ... Read more...
April 30, 2016
Remembering the Final 24 Hours in the Fall of Saigon
(NOTE: I make it a point to re-run this story every year on the anniversary of the Fall of Saigon–an event I covered for the Chicago Tribune in 1975. I hope you find it of interest) Forty-one years ago today I was in a place called Saigon as it fell to Communist North Vietnamese troops. ... Read more...
April 19, 2016
A Look at Japan’s All-Female Takarazuka Theater
(Periodcially, I post stories I wrote while working as a foreign correspondent. The following story is a feature on Japan’s unique Takarazuka Theater where unmarried women play all the roles. Ron Yates) It is late afternoon and 18 teenage girls, wearing simple jackets and long, gray flannel skirts that reveal just the barest trace of ... Read more...
March 12, 2015
ForeignCorrespondent Has Moved
Dear followers & friends:
ForeignCorrespondent has moved to a new URL. You can find it at:
http://ronaldyatesbooks.com/
Pls check it out
ForeignCorrespondent has moved to a new URL. You can find it at:
http://ronaldyatesbooks.com/
Pls check it out
March 10, 2015
Foreign Correspondent is Moving
Dear followers, friends and visitors:
ForeignCorrespondent will be moving to a new URL in the next few days.
You will be able to find it at:
www.ronaldyatesbooks.com along with my new improved website.
So be sure to checkout the new
www.ronaldyatesbooks.com for all of my latest updates, blog posts and articles!
