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This month's blurbs include the biography of a trend-setting band and the story behind a 250-year-old trend-setting sentence. The Name of this Band is R.E.M by Peter Ames Carlin The college rock band REM-- Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe-- formed in Athens Georgia in 1980. Their music helped to define an... Continue Reading →
The cherry tree outside our window is covered in blossoms creating a white and pink cloud glowing in the sun. This is the first time Judy and I have been able to enjoy the tree’s peak bloom since moving to Rehoboth Beach. I can think of few better promises of summer, and I feel a... Continue Reading →
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor, created the oldest surviving photograph in 1826 or 1827, a view through the window of his home. Niépce used a lens to focus light onto a pewter plate covered in Bitumen of Judea, a naturally occurring light-sensitive petroleum. Little did he know his camera would have a considerable impact... Continue Reading →
Here are two recent children's book recommendations I made at Browseabout Books. For our teacher friends, these would make excellent additions to your classroom libraries. Ilona Holland’s children’s book George Washington’s Remarkable Solutions presents an information-rich look at Washington’s innovations and architectural feats at his Mount Vernon estate without shying from the issue of slavery. Holland's approach... Continue Reading →
Carpenter James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, the same year the United States defeated Mexico in the American-Mexican War and gained the California Territory. John Sutter hired over one hundred men to build his gristmill and the eight-mile race, or ditch, carrying water to the mill. He put Marshall in charge of... Continue Reading →
The Display Takes Shape ESWA’s December 13th Holiday Book Festival at Cult Classic Brewing helped me realize so many successes, particularly meeting fellow writers, their families, and visitors— connections far more important than book sales, newsletter sign-ups, business cards distributed, and the hard numbers talked about in marketing workshops. I’d like to thank the woman... Continue Reading →
Part of my new job at Browseabout Books, an independent bookstore in Rehoboth Beach, is composing book blurbs for titles I would recommend to book buyers, and I just submitted three to appear on the store's shelves. These are titles I have read or reread recently, and I thought you might like to take a... Continue Reading →
The Eastern Shore Writers' Association's Winter Book Festival and its Zoom reading event are almost here. 26 Delmarva writers, including me, will share excerpts from their works on Thursday, December 11th over Zoom beginning at 7:30 PM. Authors participating in the readings are among the 37 featured at the book festival happening Saturday, December 13th,... Continue Reading →
Judy and I visited recently The John Dickinson Plantation, a historic site located off Delaware’s Route One just south of the Dover Air Force Base and managed by Delaware’s Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. We wandered the grounds for about a half-hour then took an information-rich hour-long mansion tour. Dickinson earned the moniker “The... Continue Reading →
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence in rooms he rented from bricklayer Jacob Graff at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The home is administered by the National Parks Service and is open to public tours. The desire for independence from Great Britain grew slowly in American colonists' hearts. Their central grievance with the mother... Continue Reading →
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