Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105

What a fascinating life, she sounds like she was a remarkable woman. (Also, the heroine of the mystery I'm reading right now is a well bred young woman making her way as a journalist, so this obit was a wee bit of serendipity right now...)

She periodically slept on the ( Read more... )

This is not a NaNo post, but if you're writing about a Viking ship and you've got a Viking helmet icon, why wouldn't you use it?

A week or so ago Brittney posted to the Guild group on Facebook: A bit out of our time period, but if anyone wants to join in, we're going to this at the Kingston stop probably on Saturday the 10th. I also really want to ( Read more... )

Posted August 9th, trying to get back to writing up my adventure sooner rather than later! Several months ago my childhood friend Kelly contacted me on Facebook. Her knew her current job was ending (she’s a research scientist, so grants run out, etc.) and now that her son was 18, she was selling her house (part of her divorce decree) and planning ( Read more... )

Back in 2012 before Kass and Bob moved to the Islands, I drove down to PA to help her sort through a mountain of books she had inherited from her uncle. We went out for a lovely drive in their new Jeep and ended up across the river at their favorite little organic ice cream shop. Which is the first ice cream shop I’d ever seen with multiple types ( Read more... )

This is some of the best stuff I’ve read in ages. Let us now praise the immaculate shade of Joyce Beatty.

This woman is not afraid of ISIS, Putin, Trump, or stains ( Read more... )

We had a brief downpour on Monday. Not enough to do much more than wet the streets, but not enough to wash them down properly. And on my walk from the office to the bus station, I felt like I got a weird whiff of what it must have been like to live in the 16th century. Because that brief downpour? Made everything smell like piss ( Read more... )

I survived another week at The Place ( Read more... )

The U-boat war was particularly unforgiving to merchant mariners. The Merchant Marine suffered a higher casualty rate than any branch of the military, losing 9,300 men, with most of the losses occurring in 1942, when most merchant ships sailed U.S. waters with little or no protection from the U.S. Navy. In March 1942 alone, 27 ships from six Allied ( Read more... )

The past couple of weekends have been really intense, first Military Through the Ages down in Jamestown, then History Camp, and now the First Person Interpreter’s Professional Network retreat. I’ve all full up with thinky-thoughts about how to play the history game. I really need some time to process (“I need to download” says my favorite ( Read more... )

My history peeps over on Facebook bring me such joy ( Read more... )