Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1980-1960) and Charles Perkins Strite (1978-1956)—not exactly celebrities. Though, perhaps they should be. Their combined ingenuity…
February 20, 2024
Searching for some fun details or a bit of drama to slip into your next fictional piece? Well, pull…
November 22, 2023
Louise stared at the nearly empty sack of flour. Her eyes flitted to a canister tucked in the back…
August 23, 2023
In the early 1900s trolleys, otherwise known as “streetcars,” began popping up all over the United States. (For this…
January 20, 2023
Did you know Charles Dickens’ full name was Charles John Huffam Dickens? I didn’t, and Dickens is one of…
December 20, 2022
Alice’s feet drag to the mailbox. She had waited until the mailman travelled a few houses beyond theirs. She…
November 23, 2022
If you watch movies or read fiction novels, your perception of masquerades is probably of elaborate parties among the…
October 20, 2022
Did you know Charles Dickens’ full name was Charles John Huffam Dickens? I didn’t, and Dickens is one of…
September 20, 2022
Public school buses (part 1- almostanauthor.com) hit the road in the 1920s, traveling the soon-to-be-familiar roads of segregation. But…
August 20, 2022
Bartolomeo Cristofori accomplished a great technical achievement when he created the piano, but the piano did not become popular…
July 20, 2022
As a writer it is important to get your details right, even in fiction. I am working on final…
June 20, 2022
Most folks are very familiar with big yellow buses boasting black-stenciled letters: SCHOOL BUS We can’t miss them. We’re…
May 20, 2022
Do you remember writing your first story idea or, maybe even your first manuscript, with pencil or pen and…
April 20, 2022
The drug store soda fountain Ahhh, The drug store soda fountain in Small Town, America. A hub for hungry…
February 20, 2022
The Christmas season is a great time to discover and explore local history. Historical Poole Forge was part of…
January 20, 2022
If there’s Figgy pudding, it must be Christmas! Just ask Tiny Tim, the endearing child in Charles Dickens’ 1843…
December 20, 2021
This hodgepodge of events would lead to the creation of a long-time favorite cereal! Corn Flakes’ journey began in…
February 20, 2021
An interesting thing happened to me on my way to being traditionally published. During my most recent edit, the…
September 20, 2020
Comics Book #1 landed on newsstands in June 1938, and from its pages Superman soared into the lives of…
February 20, 2020
As both a reader and a writer, I enjoy spending time in book stores and libraries. This year some…
January 20, 2020
Rebecca Lee Crumpler was a pioneer, but not the sort who climbed a weather-beaten prairie wagon, wrapped her work-worn…
February 20, 2019
Board games − at some time in our lives, most of us have awakened on Christmas morning to find…
November 20, 2018
Releasing November 8th, A Musket in My Hands is Sandra Merville Hart’s third Civil War romance with Smitten Historical…
November 8, 2018
Searching for the setting of that next novel? I am in the same boat. My third Civil War romance,…
October 20, 2018
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