Deep Valley Confidential

This section opens with a double photo spread of “Puddlers” and waterboys at an Ohio steel mill. Don’t none of them look happy in their work...

I started my notes for this section with this - “Since I have decided I am only doing this writing for me, I am going to skip the section on...

Paragraph one - Calamity Jane is mentioned, a woman. Also the word flamboyance is used, although not in a specially gay context. TL descri...

Quote from the diary of Lucy A. Ide from 1878. "Thoughts stray back to the comfortable homes we left behind and the question arises, i...

I remember exactly where I was when I read GOOD MASTERS, SWEET LADIES, Laura Amy Schlitz's 2008 Newbury award winner. I was behind the...

Part 6 HALLOWEEN AND THANKSGIVING Halloween and Thanksgiving are lumped together, as they should be, bracketing the not yet invented holi...

You would think if you were famous enough to have at least two short story collections and three other novels published and be hailed in ...

Look at this double spread for decoration day 1899! It’s about 10 years early for EMILY OF DEEP VALLEY, but it certainly conveys the impor...

It has been a long, long time! I usually read my Lamberts at the gym and if you are just waking up from a 3 month nap, the gym is no mor...

Part 1 AN EYE FOR AN EYE SO this is the law and order section and I am really not excited about reading it. I have had about enough of man’...

We are still on the move and up comes the question of the centennial! I remember the bicentennial. We spent that summer on a cross country...