Back in high school, I remember overhearing two girls lamenting how awful their classes were and how they ‘hated’ history. Since I was hiding in a bathroom stall at the time, I didn’t give voice to my horror at their sentiment, but it has stuck with me in the thirty… Read More »Writing Historical Fiction by Sarah Woodbury
In the 1930s – in spite of the Great Depression – American cars positively sizzled with personality. Sure, there were Fords and Dodges and Buicks aplenty. But who hasn’t heard of them? Even their highbrow cousin Cadillac wouldn’t flutter the pulses of someone like me, whose interest in cars has… Read More »SEDUCTIVE CARS OF THE 1930s by M. Ruth Myers
I have always read historical fiction. When I was a child I associated fiction with times and places far removed from my current suburban routine, from the Little House books to the Great Brain series. As I grew up my fiction continued to be historical. I graduated to the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen.… Read More »Fact and Fiction by Annmarie Banks
Children have such wonderful blank canvases for minds. And the books they read at this period become impressed as if on soft clay that has not yet baked and hardened into an unchangeable shape by adult experiences and disappointments. The books that impressed me as a child… Read More »Treading Life’s Broad Highway by Loretta Proctor