Blogs in January 1970

Salt City 1st January 1970

Syracuse, upstate New York. The “Salt City.” An apartment building on the edge of The Projects – and Anne Malloy dies, flying out of a sixth floor window, an apparent suicide, while Mark Cornell watches. Mark was there for...

Read More 

A Land More Kind than Home 1st January 1970

One Sunday nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting image – inspired by a horrific true event – to...

Read More 

The Lovely Bones 1st January 1970

On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s haunting and heartbreaking...

Read More 

Pittsburgh Noir 1st January 1970

Pittsburgh has recently been called `the most liveable city in America’ – yet the old image of smoky skies and steel mills spewing forth grit has never quite disappeared. Its history as a dirty industrial centre is part of...

Read More 

The Bungalow 1st January 1970

The country is at war, 21 year old Anne Calloway is about to marry a man she has known all her life. Her best friend Kitty will depart for Bora Bora to work as a nurs. Anne too, decides...

Read More