Part 74: Riley’s Deal with Billboard Magazine, Don’t Be Like Duane.
I'm digging through my father's journal trying to remember what happened after we moved from the place where the woman was held hostage....
Part 73: The Visitors
© copyright 2019-2022 Stacya Silverman. All rights reserved. Riley refused to smoke outside, and Jan had a choice, fresh air or security....
Part 72: Sticky Fingers
©Stacya Shepard Silverman Riley Shepard’s Promise 2021 All Rights Reserved I stopped posting today's date in these blogs a while ago,...
Part 71: Road To Rio
Recently, my friend Tom was in a run down section of Costa Mesa (in an alley) and he snapped these two photos. He texted me the images...
Part 70: I Used to Steal Candy
©Stacya Shepard Silverman Riley Shepard’s Promise 2021 All Rights Reserved After Riley had the blow out with our old landlord, we arrived...
Part 69: Jan & Riley Separate, Riley Hides The Encyclopedia of Folk Music From The Publishers
Below is a single page from Riley's journal with only two things written on it. The scribbled circle and arrows are mine, trying to...
Part 68: Riley's Brother Victor, The Brown Derby, Riley's Bonanza Girlfriend.
Riley made reservations at The Brown Derby, a restaurant where he hung out in the bar with famous people like Gene Autry, and where...
Part 67: Riley and Jan, Mae West, More About Halo Meadows
Below, my mother, Jan as a teenager. © copyright 2019-2022 Stacya Silverman. All rights reserved. My parents first met in Reading,...
Part 66: My Father, Riley Shepard
Photo by Thomas Schworer I grew up in a cloud of my father’s cigar smoke, listening to the tapping sounds from his Corona typewriter, the...
Part 65: Criswell and Halo, Riley Sold Cheesecakes To Pay Rent & The FBI
©Stacya Shepard Silverman Riley Shepard ’s Promise 2021 All Rights Reserved Today is Saturday, March 20, 2021. Deaths from the...