Events of the past.
I used to work in administration, and I love research so I wanted to take a look at this “National Research Administrator Day” listed on the national calendar of holidays and celebrate with some great research links! Research is vital to any writer, whether you are writing contemporary fiction or historical. A writer needs to …
Mary Katherine Goddard – an 18th Century American Businesswoman Born in Connecticut in 1738, she was a printer, publisher and postmaster, and she was the first to print a published version of the Declaration of Independence. Mary Katherine Goddard started out helping in her brother’s print shop in Providence with her mother, Sarah Updike as …
Think back to first grade: did you read My Little Red Story Book or My Little White House? Read on! This was years before the 1980s when reading education began with index cards labelling each item in the house such as “table” and, if the parents could find a way to attach the card, “dog.” …
The Detroit Free Press first reported baseball game was played on August 15, 1857 when the Franklin Baseball Club, a local amateur group, took the field in a lot on the corner of Adams Avenue and Beaubien – an intersection now replaced by Ford Field. Though cricket was then the more popular game, small groups …
A Civil War Courtship: The Letters of Edwin Weller from Antietam to Atlanta by William Walton My rating: 4 of 5 stars The title reflects the contents: it’s a collection of letters written by Edwin Weller, a member of the 107th New York Volunteers, during the Civil War. Mr. Welller fought at Antietam and Gettysburg …
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw My rating: 2 of 5 stars Rating this, a collection of short narratives, almost bios, of people in WWII, is difficult because of one thing: its writer. While I found some of the information about their life stories and experiences interesting, all was told by, and very much in …
The decade of the 1940s was, from the perspective of seven decades past, a decade of numbers. But in choosing the decade as a setting for my story, they are numbers to be looked at, as the nation changed drastically. Before World War II, much of the country still resided in farm communities. No Ordinary …
In the mood for the 1940s? I am, as my work in progress is set in the decade of swing and World War II. So what better way to kick off a series of posts on the 1940s than with the Glen Miller Orchestra and “In The Mood?”