http://www.craignelson.us History for Smart People Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:47:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love Chicago so much, and getting invited twice, to lecture at the Adler and then host Captain Lovell and Doctor Aldrin at a benefit was a dream come true ... and having it all captured on iTunes ... including my desperate note-reading on the phone before the legends of ... http://www.craignelson.us/2009/09/23/that-wonderful-town/ Hosting Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell at Adler Planetarium's anniversary benefit on the Northwestern campus: http://tinyurl.com/m7u5my Attending the Legacy of Apollo Panel of historians at NASA headquarters: http://tinyurl.com/n3qxnc http://www.craignelson.us/2009/09/11/balmy-summer-memories/ Premiere Collectibles is now offering autographed copies of Rocket Men through its web site. For those of you who wrote me asking about getting one since you couldn't make it to my appearances, now the process is simple. Just click here: Autographed Editions of Rocket Men http://www.craignelson.us/2009/08/26/autographed-copies-now-online/ A 1765 Transcription of the Indians’ Traditional Account of their First Meeting with Henry Hudson and his Crew in Manhattan, 1609, by Moravian missionary John Heckwelder: The following account of the first arrival of Europeans at York Island, is verbatim as it was related to me by aged and respected Delawares, ... http://www.craignelson.us/2009/08/22/after-30-years-im-still-intoxicated/ ABC Chicago College Park Aviation Museum - CSPAN - BookTV Fox NASA History Panel http://www.craignelson.us/2009/07/23/do-you-like-to-watch-tv/ When I was in my 20s and 30s, I fell in love with Zen Buddhism, which, in retrospect, was a perfectly Scandinavian thing to do, and one of the Zen meditations I learned was: Imagine a future, where all your dreams come true. Especially at times when things aren’t going ... http://www.craignelson.us/2009/07/22/when-almost-all-your-dreams-come-true/ I've noticed, especially when doing an author appearance at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, I spend a lot of time with kids who don't carry around $27.95 to buy a book. Even so, I have a great time showing them the picture section inside Rocket Men, and explaining ... http://www.craignelson.us/2009/07/21/did-you-really-write-this/ Even though it's the dream of anyone who writes about aviation to make an appearance at Smithsonian's National Air and Space - the Rocket Men table was next to Apollo 11's Columbia on the floor and The Spirit of St. Louis in the air - I have to ... http://www.craignelson.us/2009/07/21/the-rising-light-at-patuxent/ “Spectacular.” — Vanity Fair. “The Apollo 11 mission has found its historian. Craig Nelson's Rocket Men supplies a superb survey of the Cold War origins of the space race — and a scintillating, suspenseful and surprising ‘you are there’ account of the ups and downs of the astronauts assigned to the ... http://www.craignelson.us/2009/07/20/anniversary-blurb-update/ To spend 4 years researching and writing, day after day in libraries, archives, home alone and staring at screens, and then begin a book tour by doing 70 interviews in 4 days means coming out of a cave and learning all over again that the world exists. Almost all the ... http://www.craignelson.us/2009/07/03/coming-out-of-the-cave/