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Corsets & Lace: Haute Couture – The Victorian Age
My current novel-in-progress is entitled GILT. It’s set during the 1870s in New York City. I’m definitely a country girl (actually a backwoods girl), but the first time I visited New York (I was seventeen.), I fell in love with that huge, gritty (grittier then than now), glorious, amazing metropolis. In subsequent visits, both on…
A Glance Back – Pickles!
Sometime in the middle of summer, I promised to put my Bread and Butter Pickle recipe on my blog and Facebook. Here I am about 2 months later finally getting around to it. I’ve used this recipe for years and years. It’s one given to me by one of the elderly ladies who lived in…
December 2016 Free Book!
What a privilege is mine this month to present as our December 2016 Free Book, the newly released THE BARON AND THE BEAR, Rupp’s Runts, Haskins’s Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever by our friend David Kingsley Snell. THE BARON AND THE BEAR, published by the prestigious University of Nebraska Press, is an incredible true story…
YOUR PET!/Otis
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