For the Record
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve moved them in the last fifty-plus years, lugging them from New York to Florida to a dozen places in Washington State. Once numbering well over one hundred, …
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve moved them in the last fifty-plus years, lugging them from New York to Florida to a dozen places in Washington State. Once numbering well over one hundred, …
The New York 76th Volunteer Regiment Through Gettysburg The 76th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 12 officers and 161 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 156 enlisted men to disease during …
These days getting published requires a literary agent. Few if any publishers accept submissions directly from writers unless, of course, you are someone with a track record. This means that the next task is to …
I don’t think I ever saw him sweat. If memory serves, he hardly ever purposely indulged in physical exertion of any kind. Yet, in an ironic twist of fate, it was a solitary walk and …
Our family friend Joe Kaschak had a birthday that was always easy to remember, January 8th, the day after Orthodox Christmas. Most years, even after several days of Christmas celebrating, everyone would gather to celebrate …
The Hattie’s War manuscript began with a series of letters written between Hattie and her uncle Bryon. Day one was April 11, 2020, at 3:10 pm. How do I know this? Google Docs and the …
From the start, I dreamed of finding Hannibal’s letters. I knew it was a long shot and had pretty much given up hope. Besides, the letters were not something critical to Hattie’s story, at least …
Hattie’s War is a work of historical fiction loosely based on threads of known information. Once I decided the story should be told by Hattie I needed to figure out who exactly MY Hattie was. …
The Civil War was the first war to be photo-documented, leaving us a vast collection of graphic imagery of the horrors of war. The best-known photographer of the war was Mathew Brady but there were …
Fortunately, a treasure trove of materials exists ranging from memoirs to historical fiction, to academic writings dating from the time of the conflict up until today. The massive two-volume, The Blue and the Gray; The …