The Northeast Journal published a wonderful story about us in the July/August issue. We'll post a PDF as soon as we can. Thanks to Jennifer McMillen and Susan Alderson for putting together the piece. The St. Pete Times did a story about us, too, and our friends at USF's Florida Studies Program put it up online.
Thanks also to David McRee, the Beachhunter, for including us on his website. Here's a link The Beach Hunter
Friday, July 28, 2006
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MEET THE AUTHOR – KURT MUSE
Meet Kurt Muse, co-author of Six Minutes to Freedom, at the Panama Canal Museum on Tuesday, August 1, at 7 pm. The Panama Canal Museum in Seminole will be hosting a book signing and lecture by Muse, who will offer details about his experiences fighting the regime of dictator Manuel Noriega in the late 1980s when disappearances, beatings and murders were commonplace.
Born in the United States, but raised in Panama, Kurt Muse grew up with a deep love for his adopted country. Noriega’s reign of terror was unacceptable to Muse and his friends, who for two years operated clandestine radio stations on low-tech equipment smuggled into Panama, urging the people of Panama to rise up in defense of their freedom. In late 1987, Radio Constitucional began to override any transmission from a government-run radio network.
Six Minutes to Freedom, which Muse co-authored with John Gilstrap, spins the chilling tale of Muse’s arrest by Noriega’s henchmen and his months of imprisonment; the squalid conditions he faced in Panama’s infamous Modelo Prison; his eyewitness accounts of his fellow inmates’ torture; and the plight of Kurt’s family as they fled for their lives. And it reveals, for the first time, the astonishing
details of the long-awaited day when helicopters arrived in a firestorm of bullets to whisk Kurt Muse from under the noses of thugs who had been ordered to kill him.
Anyone interested in international espionage and real life adventure will not want to miss this opportunity to hear this exciting author. Books are available in the museum gift shop. The Panama Canal Museum is located at 7985 113th Street, Suite 100, Seminole, FL. Space is limited so R.S.V.P. at 727-394-9338 or email pancanalmuseum@aol.com.
The mission of the Panama Canal Museum is to preserve the history of the American era of the Panama Canal (1904-1999). For more information about the museum visit the website at panamacanalmuseum.org.
Thanks, Elizabeth!
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