Mary Shanklin
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Mary Shanklin
@maryshanklin.bsky.social
Hunting backstories. Adjunct journalism instructor at UCF. Author of American Castle, The Notorious Legacy of Mar-a-Lago (Diversion Books; New York, NY).
Friend of a friend’s place in Tallahassee, Florida where pool enclosures are built to withstand hurricanes….

….but not snow.
January 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Inauguration irony:

On this day in ‘69 (OK, technically yesterday), Interior Secretary Stu Udall accepted Mar-a-Lago as a National Historic Site - paving the way for it to belong to all Americans as part of the National Park Service. No kidding.
January 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Think Ill have some Uncle Nearling, watch Blue Velvet and toast to the man who invented a villain like Frank.
January 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Guliani’s pomeranian Vinny, feeling newly relieved at Mar-a-Lago.
January 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
When you can’t read a word of the latest article about your book…
January 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Thanks again to Lauren Groff @authorlaurengroff.bsky.social for showing us some humanity as a recent speaker at the Adult Literacy League’s @adultliteracy.bsky.social Reading Between the Wines. Inspired $$$ of support.
January 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Donald Trump may ridicule Jimmy Carter but the incoming pres wouldn’t have been able to purchase Mar-a-Lago without the former peanut farmer. Nobody is talking about this but look who signed the bill divesting it fm the National Park Service.
January 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM