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Dante’s Info # 12, the Spring 1995 edition, was the second issue of my tent newsletter that I created using the new computer-formatted look – and the last one for many years that I was entirely pleased with. With this issue and all previous ones, my Dad would take the photos that I wanted to use to work with him and create a half-tone shot of the correct dimensions that would be literally pasted to a master sheet. These photocopied very well. But when we began scanning in the images we wanted to use, it was exceptionally difficult to print them out and get them to photocopy with any degree of quality. Read the rest of this entry »

I was starting to amass quite a bit of material for my Sons of the Desert Tent’s quarterly newsletter Dante’s Info in the early part of 1995. Doing research and collecting was certainly a high priority in my life at this juncture. Bill Cappello, who I had become friends with after we met at the 1994 New York convention was assisting in any way he could. He had done a remarkable job at locating ‘missing’ celebrities. One such find was Bill Wolfstone, who had portrayed “Little Curly” in the the Three Stooges film Three Little Pigskins in 1934 (see photo at left). Read the rest of this entry »

Of significant importance in defining the early part of 1995 is the role that my editorship of Dante’s Info played in my life at this time. Lisa and I hadn’t been together too long before she was thrust into my other life with the Sons of the Desert, through forced attendance at our meetings and my constant involvement with creating our tent’s newsletter Dante’s Info.

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