This post is part of series on recent family history research I've been working on and some of the methods that family historians and genealogists use. If you'd like to learn more about your own family history but don't know where to start, you can find out more here. Bellevue Cemetery is situated on the …
Will you be my 18th century Valentine?
It's recently been estimated that Americans spend $19.5 billion on Valentine's Day. Whether you go all in or prefer to recast the holiday as "Singles Awareness Day," people have been baring their heart and soul through love notes for centuries. In early America, as long as quill, ink, and paper were on hand -- one …
Making space [for writing.]
"If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something."Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (2015) Is there such a thing as a creative hangover? A creative drought, perhaps? These were the things rolling about in my mind as I sat down a few weeks ago to write -- …
“Thistle Among the Pines”
This month I contributed my first byline to Salt magazine here in Wilmington, NC. Check out the full article on Flora MacDonald and crew at "Thistle Among the Pines: Flora MacDonald and the Highland Scots of the Cape Fear."
Five on a Friday: Podcasts for a Varied Life
I am addicted to podcasts. Much like the earlier 2000s were the golden age of blogging, it seems that today we are living in a golden age of audio. Podcasts crept into my life very unassumingly. I can’t even name the first one I ever listened to. But like the Netflix-induced binging of television series …
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