Tag: Research
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When People Get Nice On You
I was just popping in for a few minutes at the library when one of my new favorite librarians hailed me over to see what she’d found at a garage sale?! I come from a long line of people who want to trust others, but just don’t. It’s an affliction we wear with humor and…
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Loving the Brits and Finding an American Voice
http://theamericanscholar.org/voices-of-a-nation/#.U3YR2yhAg_g http://www.neoamericanist.org/review/anglophilia-deference-devotion-and-antebellum-america and a beautiful art blog full of 19th century images perfect for research and awe: http://b-womeninamericanhistory19.blogspot.com/2013/10/19c-americans-in-their-grand-victorian.html
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Who Owns Time? The Railroads Do.
From http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/mypath.cfm?ounid=ob_000194 “At present the jewelers of Burlington are using almost exclusively Chicago time but on Sunday will adopt standard time. Among the jewelers visited by an Hawkeye representative yesterday was Mr. G.H. Waldin, who stated he would change his time to conform to the new schedule of time just formulated for the use of…
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Explore Your City with Bird’s Eye Maps
This map is a dream come true for me. How lucky to have my character Buck Crenshaw visit Saratoga in the very year this map was published! Find your city and explore the way it used to be at the Library of Congress Panoramic Maps Collection! You can zoom in and out and have a…
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
This is one of my all time favorites. Good old John Billings. Don’t you just love a soldier who gives you the inside dirt with some wit and great illustrations? I do. John enlisted in The Army of the Potomac, but don’t let that remind you of the boring history teacher with coffee breath and…
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
Thought this was going to be a book bashing passionate lay historians (re-enactors) so put off reading it for a long time. Instead its a book of pathos relating a displaced American dream, a search for meaning in the lives of people who feel left behind and forgotten in this modern age. It’s also funny…
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Occupy Wall Street 1886
Today I’m a bit stuck–well, not really–I could write for days about the Crenshaw women undermining Buck’s future wife, but it feels too like dessert before dinner and I’m a traditionalist. Hanging over me like the Sunday after a good vacation is MERCHANT BANKING. I’m being dramatic here. It’s actually exciting to peruse titles of…
Author Adrienne Morris 