Historical Fiction of Byron Grush

Newest book: The Cabinet of Curiosities of Barnaby Cannon  and Other Stories  by Byron Grush The Cabinet of Curiosities of Barnaby Cannon and Other Stories A Cabinets of Curiosities of short stories. The disparate juxtaposition of Frito pies and the burning of Old Man Gloom, the fatal flight of the Wingfoot, Le Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré, the Salles des Glaces, equestrians Rose Dockrell and George Holland, the CSS Alabama vs. the USS Kearsage, Al Capone and the 226 Club, The Yellow Kid, and Doc W’s antique dentist’s drill. With as little similarity as a narwhale’s tusk has to an astrolabes Islamique, the commonality here is the quasi-genre of Historical Fiction. Love and tragedy, time travel and nostalgia, and some nice big explosions

Read a sample chapter from The Death of Time by Byron Grush In this chapter, the time travelers are stranded in different eras. We open with a not too distant future in which a "would be dictator" who may be familiar to readers, gets his come-up-ings. 24 Strange Fruit Hanging from the Cherry Trees Washington D.C., Spring, 2024 Killing them once had not been sufficient to quench the anger and undo the horrors of the regime. Bodies, still bleeding from bullet holes, were dragged along the walkway next to the National Mall Tidal Basin. Water flooding the banks of the basin covered much of the walk so the angry crowd tugged the bodies up across the grass and laid them under the cherry trees where kicks were applied at random to the swelling cadavers. Someone emptied a handgun into the very dead victims. Someone else brought a coil of rope, and soon there swung by the feet from the stoutest of the tree limbs, the former would-be dictator, his daughter, one ...

A new book! The Death of Time Sixteenth Century alchemy meets Twentieth Century science and a journey through space and time begins. Will it end with the Death of Time? What would you do if you could go back in time? What would you change? Who would you kill? What did the builders of the Sphinx know? What will the future of humanity be like? Only Time will tell. Alchemist Loran Mac Conmara and his apprentice, a youth named Riordan Éamon Ó Ciardha, Oak Ridge scientist Dr. Madison James McGinley, and three young people from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, find themselves joining forces in an improbable journey through time to engage in an urgent battle between scientists of the far future with the very existence of Time as a consequence.

Here's a little nostalgia piece I wrote a while back and haven't found a home for yet: HOME IS WHERE THE HEATH BAR IS Nostalgia is defined as a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time, home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends. It is a sentimental yearning for the happiness of the past. There is something so universal in this yearning that we identify with the remembrances of others, although they be far removed from our own history. When memory is faulty, invention fills in the blanks, true to the spirit, if not to the reality. Sometimes, however, pain must join with pleasure to give perspective to a nostalgic journey. This is a remembrance of a youth of post-war (WWII) Midwest. (It might have been me.) Doc W____ wasn’t the only dentist in town, but he was certainly the oldest. We speculated that he was at least one hundred and two, and his dental equipment was even older. I seem to remember that the drill was powered by foot p...

My time at Goldsholl Design and Film Notes for an interview on the Goldsholls by Byron Grush My Background I had studied Graphic Design at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and went onto graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where I became the first graduate with a degree that read “Photography/Filmmaking.” I studied there under the famous avant-garde filmmaker, Gregory Markopolous. How that led to my joining Goldsholl & Associates I was studying art at a time (the sixties) when Pop Art was very big. In graphic design the big names were Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Charles and Ray Eames(who also did films), and basically anyone from the post-Bau Haus era who, like Mort and Millie, had studied with Lazlo Maholy-Nagy. So it was a transition from the 1930s Bau Haus and Russian Constructivism sensibilities into the psychedelic, experimental, new media-is-the-message attitudes. Film was a big part of this. So when I got my...

Designers in Film: Films by the Goldsholls and Company Friday, October 12, 2018 7:00 PM  FREE In their advertising and personal films like  Night Driving  (1957), Morton and Millie Goldsholl devised exciting and adventurous forms of image-making—as did their employees and collaborators. This program surveys some of the Goldsholls’ most dazzling shorts, along with underseen works by Goldsholl Studio members like Wayne Boyer, Larry Janiak, and Byron Grush . Exhibition curator Amy Beste will join Boyer, Grush, Paul Jessel and Marie Cenkner to talk about their films, their experiences with the Goldsholls, and their place at the cutting edge of experimental screen culture in Chicago. Northwestern University Block Museum of Art  |  40 Arts Circle Drive  |  Evanston, IL  |  60208-2140 Phone: 847.491.4000  |  Fax: 847.491.2261  |  Email:  block-museum@northwestern.edu

buy the book Once Upon a Gold Rush 5.0 out of 5 stars A great tale about some fascinating people By William A. Mego This is an extremely well-researched and insightful look at a period that could be best described as a passing madness, as men and women sought easy fortunes in the soils of California. And Grush serves it to us with all the flavor and detail we've come to expect. I am a fool for boats, so I treasured being able to enjoy a trip around the horn without having to experience the panic and frozen limbs those journeys usually required. Another welcome story about a remarkable family. 5.0 out of 5 stars Another Intriguing Story By Nancy M. Mego "Once Upon a Gold Rush" continues the story of the Grosh family, following three of them as they travel with a wagon train from Illinois to California in 1850. The story is rich with detail of pioneer life as was the preceding book, " All the Way by Water." Starting from fragments of actual family history, "O...