Published in the Bennington Banner on August 28, 2006 NEW RABBI HAS FDR’s, ELEANOR’S DNA BENNINGTON – For anyone else, the legend might have loomed too large. The footsteps would have been too massive. But for Rabbi Joshua Boettiger, being the great-grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt is something he hasn’t allowed to overshadow his life. …
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Friday Night Lights: A 20-Year Retrospective
Interview conducted by Matt Tuthill in the summer of 2008 for BlitzMagOnline.com, home site of Blitz Magazine. Twenty years ago, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger shed the shackles of suburban Philadelphia, uprooted his family and moved to Odessa, Texas, the dream of spinning a spectacular narrative about the power of sports in our culture …