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Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: The Highest Highs and Lowest Lows

June 17, 2020 by Jim Potter 6 Comments

· Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: The Highest Highs and Lowest Lows· It’s Sunday evening, September 11, 1927, in Hutchinson, Kansas. Pearl Albrecht, 15, and Delbert Wright, 14, are visiting while sitting on his front porch swing. * “Delbert,” said Pearl, “it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me! I’m only fifteen, but Rorabaugh-Wiley is paying me for being me, I mean, for dressing up like Charles Lindbergh.” “Now, tell me again,” said Delbert. “Does the department store still want to … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: The Highest Highs and Lowest Lows

Filed Under: Blog posts Tagged With: Anna Kelly, Charles Lindbergh Jr., Delbert Wright, Fay Brown, Hutchinson Kansas, Hutchinson Police Department, Hutchinson Police matron, Hutchinson's Fall Festival Frolic, Jim Potter, Kansas Authors Club, Mrs. Entwisle, Old Pal, Pearl Albrecht, Reno County, Reno County Sheriff, Rorabaugh-Wiley, Sheriff Fay Brown, Sheriff Fay Brown's Badge, Spirit of St Louis, Studebaker standard six

Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: The Day after the Fall Festival Frolic

June 10, 2020 by Jim Potter 6 Comments

· Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: The Day after the Fall Festival Frolic· It’s Thursday, September 8, 1927 in Hutchinson, Kansas. Cora Brown, matron and cook at the Reno County Jail, 15 Ave B, east, hears the front doorbell ringing at her residence attached to the jail. * “Why, Anna Kelly,” said Cora, “it’s great to see you again! Come on inside and rest your feet. I’m about ready to take a cherry pie out of the oven. Do you like pie?” “Oh, Cora!” said Anna, as she sniffed the delicious … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: The Day after the Fall Festival Frolic

Filed Under: Blog posts Tagged With: Anna Kelly, Charles Lindbergh Jr., Charlie Chaplin, Delbert Wright, Fay Brown, flapper, floozy, Hutchinson Kansas, Hutchinson Police Department, Hutchinson Police matron, Hutchinson's Fall Festival Frolic, Jim Potter, Kansas Authors Club, Lucky Lindy, Methodist Hospital, Pearl Albrecht, Police Chief George Duckworth, Reno County, Reno County Sheriff, Rorabaugh-Wiley, Sheriff Fay Brown, Sheriff Fay Brown's Badge, Spirit of St Louis

Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Pearl and Delbert

June 3, 2020 by Jim Potter 11 Comments

· Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: Pearl and Delbert· It’s September 7, 1927, in Hutchinson, Kansas. Downtown’s Fall Festival Frolic begins with a parade. * Pearl Albrecht, 15, hurried three doors east from her house on Ave A. west, to visit her friend, Delbert Wright, 14. Even though he had promised everything would be ready in time, she had to see for herself. As Pearl walked into Delbert’s open-door garage, she said, “Hello Delbert. I hope you’re as excited as I am about tonight.” Delbert … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Pearl and Delbert

Filed Under: Blog posts Tagged With: Charles Lindbergh Jr., Charlie Chaplin, Delbert Wright, Fay Brown, Hutchinson Kansas, Hutchinson Police Department, Hutchinson's Fall Festival Frolic, Jim Potter, Kansas Authors Club, Lucky Lindy, Martha Washington, Pearl Albrecht, Reno County, Reno County Sheriff, Sheriff Fay Brown, Sheriff Fay Brown's Badge, Spirit of St Louis

Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Sisters Night Out

March 18, 2020 by Jim Potter 2 Comments

· Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: Sisters Night Out It's the evening of June 18, 1927. Cora Phares Brown, 33, and her sister, Occie Phares Hamilton, 40, are going to the Midland Theater to see the silent film, "The Telephone Girl." * Occie pulled her Overland coupe up to the sheriff's residence which was part of the Reno County Jail, at 15 B, east, Hutchinson, and got out. Recalling brother-in-law, Sheriff Fay Brown's cautionary advice, she locked the doors. Cora stepped out of the … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Sisters Night Out

Filed Under: Blog posts Tagged With: Arthur Townley, Babe Ruth, Black Hills South Dakota, Charles A. Lindbergh, Charlie Chaplin, Chester Crouch, Cora Brown, Fay Brown, Harry Chabin, Jim Potter, Kansas Authors Club, Lita Gray Chaplin, Lucky Lindy, Madge Bellamy, Marcus Brown, Nancy Orilla Brown, Occie Phares Hamilton, President Coolidge, Reno County Sheriff, Sheriff Fay Brown, Sheriff Fay Brown's Badge, Southwestern Bell Telephone, Spirit of St Louis, St. Louis Cardinals, The Telephone Girl

Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr

March 11, 2020 by Jim Potter 2 Comments

· Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. It’s May 20, 1927. Fay and Cora Brown, married, are talking about aviator Charles A. Lindbergh who is enroute to Paris from New York City in his single-seater, single engine, monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. * According to the news,” said Fay Brown, “the weather finally improved on Long Island, New York City, and in the northern Atlantic. Charles Lindbergh hopped-off from Roosevelt Field on his solo trip across the ocean … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr

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Purchased Postcards

November 6, 2019 by Jim Potter 7 Comments

· Purchased Postcards: My Favorites · Recently I had the pleasure of purchasing postcards. What a treat! Today, I’m going to share with you my top ten postcards from my shopping spree at the annual Wichita Postcard Club Show. You don’t have to be a postcard collector or a historian to enjoy these cards, but it helps. I’ve also learned that writers looking for a writing prompt or a story, often find a photo postcard to be just what they’re looking for to get their creative juices … [Read more...] about Purchased Postcards

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What People Are Saying

Denise Low, author of Jackalope (Red Mountain Press)

Jim Potter is a cop, retired, but he brings deep understanding of this job to his novel Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery. This layered novel has literary dimensions as characters explore crisis situations. Congratulations to this fine writer for his debut novel.

Rebecca from Proud Police Wife

Taking Back the Bullet is an emotional, yet captivating novel. Jim Potter does a superb job of intertwining each character and putting their individual identities on display. All law enforcement storylines are a true reflection of Potter’s years as a police officer because they are realistic and relatable. This is a book I highly recommend.

Dennis Perrin, educator

Masterful storytelling, exquisite character development, so real as to HURT and HOPE, a real page turner. Begs for stage, screenwriters, and visual episodic development a.k.a. TV series . . . Thanks Jim Potter for telling it like it is AND providing us visions of how it could be. Well done!

Rebecca Schillaci

As a former law enforcement officer, I found the story very relatable as it details the life of a law enforcement officer and the struggles some face throughout their careers. . . Taking Back the Bullet is a journey of understanding, respect, and forgiveness . . .

Sheryl Remar

I enjoyed the different stories of this book because Tom, James, and Suanna, the three main characters, represent in their own way the different struggles with themselves and society’s idea of what is normal.

John & Cindy Morrill, 20 years Air Force retired, 17 years law enforcement

I enjoyed your book. When I am looking for a new read, I always read the first page, last page and choose a random page somewhere in the middle before I decide to buy it. You had me on all three pages. I also like reading a book where you can relate to the characters and the settings in which they live and work. It makes a story more realistic if you can say, I am familiar with the area; I know where that town is or I have traveled that street. It was easy to relate to the characters. In one way or another, I have met them all somewhere in my journeys.

Judy Hawk

. . . I was impressed with the Native American information as well as the depth of character development . . . .

Wynona Winn, PhD, retired school superintendent

Three main characters walk different paths but with the same destination – each coping with his or her self-discovery, self-identity, and self-realization. Much like their earlier counterparts – Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield – their journeys are often joyous, often tedious and often tragic.

Diana Dester

Good story line, building the characters along the way. Great job!

Deb Theis, LSCSW, clinical therapist/hypnotherapist

Jim Potter has done it again! After his book, Cop in the Classroom: Lessons I’ve Learned, Tales I’ve Told, Jim has written another great work. In Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery, Jim Potter takes us on an insightful journey into the lives and relationships of numerous characters. Jim is such a talented storyteller that the reader quickly becomes immersed and has a ‘bonding experience’ with each of the characters, feeling their joy, fear, passion and pain. Jim’s novel speaks to the empowerment of persistence with the characters as they work through their trials. As a therapist, I appreciated the heartfelt struggles from each of the characters and their diversity. I also found value in the novel’s understanding of society’s misunderstanding of both mental health and other conditions in which people struggle. The novel contains rich exposure to various realities that many of us do not know about . . . but should. When I finished this captivating novel, I was wanting to read the sequel! It was an honor and a wonderful, mesmerizing experience reading this book. Congratulations, Jim!

Jane Holzrichter

I finished it last night around midnight. What a great piece of work. It kept me intrigued all the way to the end.

Sean McArdle, Winchester, England

Retired police officer Potter’s novel centres on very disparate characters and through the tried and tested means of gradually introducing each one, builds a sense of anticipation about what is going to happen to them. This often used methodology is not easy to do well but is superbly handled by Potter who knows how to give enough detail to bring the characters to life, yet not too much so as to slow down the pace of the developing story. A climactic event affects the main characters and it is at this point Potter’s deep knowledge of people and police procedures really hits home; page by page we read how a seemingly simple, though terrible occurrence, can have huge consequences. To Potter’s credit the story does not have a completely conclusive or simplistic ending. Instead it leaves the reader thinking about how the events of a single minute can affect lives forever. I would whole heartedly recommend this book not as a crime novel or even as a novel about crime but as a beautiful and positive affirmation about what it is to be human and how ultimately it is relationships which matter more than events.

Morgan Penner

Taking Back the Bullet is a novel that provides the reader with a window into the world of law enforcement. As the novel unfolds, the reader is able to see how split-second decisions alter the lives of the main characters in the story. Taking Back the Bullet also explores how humanity is impacted by mental illness. One of my favorite quotes from Taking Back the Bullet is “We’re all just a critical moment from being disabled or mentally ill, and we don’t want to think about it.” The novel also provides the reader an opportunity to gain a better understanding of how mental illness impacts the individuals, their family, friends, and society. Taking Back the Bullet is a story of forgiveness and overcoming life’s struggles and tragedies.

Steve Becker

I’m impressed. It was an excellent read. . . . I hope you continue with more projects in the future.

Larry Kruckman, anthropologist

Jim Potter displays ethnographic skills in Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery, creating vivid scenes and fascinating characters. The Greeks had a word for subcultures and people’s behavior: ‘ethos,’ or ‘ways of being.’ In colorful, sometimes marvelous detail, this novel captures various people and settings . . . the ethos of rural Kansas: a jail, art fair, powwow, rehab center, courtroom, albinos, and even someone in the throes of postpartum depression. So detailed are the descriptions that they must be drawn from the author’s personal experience. Besides the artfully created characters such as the struggling jailer and husband Tom Jennings, local artist Jesse Thomas, and Native American Joe Morningcloud, there is a tight story line that grabs your attention and won’t let go. Human tensions, love, conflict, joys and sorrows are all there. Magically, all the many pieces come together in a final crescendo, giving hope that even when we find ourselves in big trouble we can survive. This is a novel I highly recommend!

Larry Kruckman
Anthropologist
Karleen Wilson-Moon

Terrific story relevant to today’s social issues . . . well written . . . likable characters . . . insightful perspective from an insider in law enforcement.

Karleen Wilson-Moon

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