Eliot Kleinberg
eliotkfla.bsky.social
Eliot Kleinberg
@eliotkfla.bsky.social
Retired journalist. Author, lecturer, blogger.
EK talkin' Peace River and Civil War in Florida:
Dec. 4, 1pm, Elliott Museum, Stuart. hsmc-fl.com/calendar/civ...
Dec. 9, 6pm, Delray Beach Historical Society, Old School Square, delraybeachhistory.org/events/herit...
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
EK talked Civil War in Florida and Peace River Nov. 19 at Palm Beach County Library, West Boynton branch. Bring me to your group! Visit ekfla.com/talks.
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Peace River: In 1865, teenagers and grizzled Seminole War veterans held off Union invaders and saved Tallahassee. For at least a few weeks.
Watch video: youtu.be/0HQgfSC-uKs
Learn the stories behind Peace River: www.ekfla.com/books/peace-...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Peace River: At this spot in downtown Baltimore, six days after Fort Sumter, a pro-South mob attacked U.S. National Guardsmen. Now it really was a civil war.
Watch video: youtu.be/P2GYR_PYrFs%...
Learn the stories behind Peace River: www.ekfla.com/books/peace-...
Buy now: a.co/d/cmTyljs
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
EK talked WW2 in Florida 11/16 at Sulphur Springs Museum, Tampa (Photo courtesy Art Fyvolent). Book me for a talk for your group! www.ekfla.com/talks.
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Something Went Horribly Wrong." A blog about better writing. #SWHW. Today: We revisit Segment 25: Disqualifiers, Part Three: Anatomy. www.ekfla.com/blog/2020/12...
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP Many incidents in the Adventures of Nate Moran series take place in the Everglades. Even in the shadow of one of the great urban centers, it remains a terra incognita, a no-man’s land, and a place shrouded in mystery. www.ekfla.com/books/https/wwwekflacom/natemoran-rnm52
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. Ernest Hemingway house in Key West. In The Adventures of Nate Moran, a story line in the novel The Wreck of the Peter Carey is inspired by two iconic, and unconventional, writers: Hemingway and Dashiel Hammett. www.ekfla.com/books/the-wreck-of-the-peter-carey-azwnr
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Trip! #EKROADTRIP. People come to this grotto at Saint Mary Star of the Sea in Key West, to pray hurricanes away. In the Miami police detective series The Adventures of Nate Moran, in The Treasure of Indian Key, Nate catches up to bad guys here. www.ekfla.com/books/the-treasure-of-indian-key-4en2l
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Peace River: At the Willard Hotel, in Washington, people gathered in February 1861 to try to stop the slide to Civil War.
Watch video: youtu.be/tDl_L7U3Qu4
Learn the stories behind Peace River: www.ekfla.com/books/peace-...
Buy now: a.co/d/cmTyljs
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
EK road trip! #EKROADTRIP Near Islamorada stands the monument to the great 1935 Labor Day hurricane. In the 1920s Miami police detective series The Adventures of Nate Moran, this storm figures in the novel The Wreck of the Peter Carey. www.ekfla.com/books/the-wreck-of-the-peter-carey-azwnr
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. A murder The Treasure of Indian Key is associated with this mysterious place: Coral Castle.https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/11/21/coral-castle-mysterious-attraction-built-monument-lost-love/8617410002/ www.ekfla.com/books/the-treasure-of-indian-key-4en2l
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIPI Cape Florida St Pk, Key Biscayne. Offshore: One-of-a-kind collection of structures: Stiltsville, where an arrest, and a murder, take place in my upcoming Adventures of Nate Moran novel, The Wreck of the Peter Carey. www.ekfla.com/books/the-wreck-of-the-peter-carey-azwnr
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. Bahia Mar Yacht Club in Fort Lauderdale. One of the characters in The Adventures of Nate Moran novel Hypocrite’s Row is inspired by the violent story of the Gulf Stream Pirate. www.ekfla.com/books#/hypocrites-row/
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. Site of the original Lauderdale marina, where an ugly murder aboard a yacht inspired a storyline in the upcoming Adventures of Nate Moran novel Midnight Pass. www.ekfla.com/books/midnight-pass-grm3z
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. A trip to the glorious Fla Keys once a year is therapy. 2 days in S Miami-Dade Cty and the Keys to shoot videos related to Civil War novel Peace River and Miami police detective series, The Adventures of Nate Moran. www.ekfla.com/books/https/wwwekflacom/natemoran-rnm52
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Peace River: Memorial to James Buchanan, who showed cluelessness and impotence as the nation raced toward Civil War.
Watch video: youtu.be/bcCSAGTGmms
Learn the stories behind Peace River: www.ekfla.com/books/peace-...
Buy now: a.co/d/cmTyljs
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Readers: For Veterans Day, please revisit "Bringing Tiny Home." From 2017. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/l...
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Peace River: The U.S. Labor Department in Washington. “Labor” was a magic word in the dispute over slavery. Was northerners’ opposition really about losing jobs?
Watch video: youtu.be/8qz4TQ0eAIo
Learn the stories behind Peace River: ekfla.com/books/peace-...
Buy now: a.co/d/cmTyljs
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
EK talkin' WW2 in Florida 2pm Sunday 11/16 at Sulphur Springs Museum & Heritage Ctr in Tampa. Be there! www.sulphurspringsmuseum.org/upcoming-eve...
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Something Went Horribly Wrong." A blog about better writing. #SWHW. Today: Sit back. Relax. Visit ekfla.com/blog. And we go to the video archives for Segment 94: Still More Strunks. youtu.be/DwwJNSkLZ68?...
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Peace RIver: The U.S. Capitol is where one legislator caned another, hastening the relentless descent to Civil War.
Watch video: youtu.be/z7J3lpuyP54
Learn the stories behind Peace River: ekfla.com/books/peace-...
Buy now: a.co/d/cmTyljs
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. Bulow Plantation Ruins State Park. Slaves tended sugar cane, cotton, rice and indigo on 4,675 acres near Flagler Beach. Seminoles burned it in 1836 during 2nd Seminole War.
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP St. Augustine: The venerable Castillo de San Marcos, America’s oldest existing fort. Many tried to take it. And failed. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2...
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
EK Road Trip! #EKROADTRIP. South Ponte Vedra Beach.
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM