Walt Pickut
Walt Pickut’s writing career began with publishing medical research in1971 while working at the Jersey City Medical Center and the NYU Hospital and School of Medicine. Walt holds board registries in respiratory care and sleep technology as well as bachelor's degrees in biology and communication, and a master's degrees in physiology from Fairleigh-Dickinson University in New Jersey, with additional graduate work in mass communication completed at SUNY Amherst.
He currently teaches Presentational Speaking in the Houghton College PACE program at JCC and holds memberships in the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Business Publication Editors. He lives in Jamestown with his wife Nancy, an MSW social worker, and has three children: Dr. Cait Lamberton in Pittsburgh, Bill Pickut, a marketing executive in Chicago, and Rev. Matt Pickut in Plymouth, IN.
A Better Sharing*
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Walter W. Pickut
Remember that day when you were a kid and Mom, or Dad, or old Aunt Sadie, caught you squabbling over some...
Where did that come from?
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In 1900, almost 40 percent of the US population lived on farms—nearly seven million of them across the land—and 60 percent...
You need a hall for that?
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A “Hall of Fame” sounds like a place where you might see something called Fame piled up in heaps and stacked...
Author Talk at Kennedy Library
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It’s not all in the history books…yet. Come to the Kennedy Library on Friday evening at 6:00p.m., 649 2nd St, Kennedy,...
Saint who?
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Since we at the Jamestown Gazette are committed to honesty in reporting and journalism, we have to confess –...
Peace is Evergreen
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The late, great Joan Rivers, that sharp-tongued comedian whose meteoric climb to fame started on the legendary Johnny Carson Show way...
Screen Doors & Window Shopping
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Screen doors and window shopping are two ways to miss out on nearly everything—a good case of look but don’t touch.
Sometimes window...
A bee-yoo-tiful day…!
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"Hello again, everybody. It’s A bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball!
That’s how the late, great and legendary sportscaster, Harry Caray, signed on at his...
Home From the Holidays? Not for the Local Homeless
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By all accounts, the recent holiday season was a good one for almost everybody, at least if spending is any measure.
Americans...
All the way home…
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Getting home can be as easy as driving home from work or walking home from your friend’s house two blocks away.
All you...
