Historical Research Archives

The Sound of Music Tour Part I

“The Sound of Music tour! You have to take it if you’re going to Salzburg,” insisted my daughter. Several other…
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When my daughter was eight years old, I realized she had never seen The Sound of Music. So, I went…
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October 12, 2015, marked the 100th anniversary of British nurse Edith Cavell’s execution by a German firing squad fifteen months…
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Writing is notoriously a solitary work, but this writer could not do her job without her writer friends. The fact…
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An amazing Alaskan gold rush story!

Writing The Gold Rush Christmas was an adventure. It began with a simple question: what was this novella about? I’d…
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