Noble Notes on Famous Folks is, first of all, a book of historical essays. This is to say that they contain the opinions, insights, and interpretations of the author along with historical facts, quotes and situations. This is not a history book. It is a book about history. Most of the sources are stated in the individual note. All these notes were originally written for my own edification and to assist my memory. You might look at this work as my homeschooled college diary or study notes. I've included in this volume a variety of ancient and modern characters ranging from Constantine to Bill...

My column "The Eastpointer" appears each week in the "Franklin Chronicle." In 2007 I won the first place award for humor from the Florida Press Association. Eastpoint is in the Florida Panhandle. In a way this is a history book because the Eastpoint and Franklin County that existed when we arrived are gone. Franklin County has been, traditionally, a seafood community and Eastpoint is the oyster capital of Florida. This volume contains a selection of columns that create a portrait of life in the "sleepy, little fishing village" of Eastpoint, Florida. The book presents an entertaining variety...

This book contains a variety of selected poems by Richard Edward Noble. The book is divided into catagories: My Hometown, Humor, Love and Other Nice Things, Tenderness and Tears, and On the Serious Side. It concludes with a helpful first line index of poems.

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother is a tragic novel. The main character is a little boy. The reader learns to understand Richard by listening to his thoughts. We read his mind as he tries to make sense of those around him. We follow Richard's thoughts from ages five to thirteen as he translates the people, the circumstances, and the society around him. The reader will walk through a tragedy of personal, religious and social confusion. Any one who reads this book will be left with some very difficult impressions and many shocking images that will never go away.

Come along with Carol and Dick and live in the places where Charles Kuralt was afraid to park his bus. Feel the pain, joy and anger and shake the calloused hands that make America what it is. See America in its glory and its shame. See it from the highways, the sidewalks and the gutters. Meet Asians, Indians, Jamaicans, Haitians and Mexicans - meet most of them in one chicken factory in central Arkansas on the third shift. See America from the bottom of the cracker barrel.

I've come to the conclusion that most of what I write can be classified under one category, Creative Non-fiction. It is all true ... but not exactly. When I write about things that are common to my wife Carol and me, her comment is, "I love reading my husband's descriptions of our adventures. I get the enjoyment from the adventure that I experienced and then the added pleasure of reading about the trip he went on." And that about covers it. All the stories in this book happened. They just may not have happened exactly as I have described them.

Thank God for the street corners of Lawrence, Ma and being able to "hang out." I started writing stories about the old gang and hangin' out when I was about eighteen years old. Then life came along and got in my way. But now I'm back. As far as I am concerned, I'm stronger and better equipped to do justice to the old gang and the street corners that made our hangin' out so memorable. This is my first book on this subject and it covers more than just the variety stores, drug stores and street corners of my youth. It branches out into barrooms, nightclubs, poolrooms, bowling alleys and the...

If you don't know the History of American Labor, you don't know American History I have come to the conclusion that the labor movement in America and around the world is the key to understanding or misunderstanding modern history. It is the Rosetta Stone to deciphering modern day politics. The descendents of the Holocaust victims rewrite their story anew every generation vowing that it shall never be forgotten. It is the obligation of each generation to rewrite the past in the vocabulary of their times in order to keep it alive for all time. This book is my small contribution to keeping the...

Tenement Dwellers is the second volume of anecdotes from my series of books about the old neighborhood and growing up in a collapsing, forgotten industrial mill town along the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Lawrence, Massachusetts was my hometown. It was seven square miles of three-decker tenement houses, housing projects, kids and congestion. It was schoolyards, churches, smokestacks, pool halls, back alleys, barrooms and mile after mile of abandoned, redbrick mill buildings. Life was difficult trying to raise oneself in such an environment. As I said in my first volume, "Just...

In 1976 my wife and I decided to celebrate the American Bicentennial by taking a tour of the United States. We cashed out of our conventional lives and hit the road ... Hobo-ing America. We landed in Franklin County on Seafood Festival Day in the early 80's. We've been here ever since. We were told that once the sand from the beautiful beaches of Franklin County got between a visitor's toes, he became a prisoner of the area for the remainder of his days. That has certainly been the case with Carol and me. We had no intention of ever settling down. We hungered for the life of the vagabond. We...