Finding something new
I love it when I stumble on something that shows an old story in a new light, and I actually have two I’m working on right now. I’m going to be a bit vague about what they about since things may change. Plus, I’d like for them to be a surprise when they come out. Both are Cumberland, Maryland, stories. One is about an incident that took place in 1918. It wasn’t a big story, but it is an interesting one. As I researched it, I found the source that all the contemporary versions of the story used. However, I also found a newspaper report of the incident that shed a lot more details about what happened. The biggest surprise is that it didn’t even happen on the date reported in modern stories. I also found the cause of the Read more…
The Mystery of History. Boring It's Not!
You would think that with history, things would be set in stone. I mean, history’s happened so the facts of what happened are there for everyone to see. That should make my job as a writer who likes historical topics easy. Maybe. Maybe not. I’ve run into two instances recently that have both frustrated me and intrigued me because they are a bit of a mystery. This morning I’ve been culling through the internet, my research library and making calls to try and find out how a baseball league, that by all accounts ceased playing in 1930, was still competing in 1934. I went through an article I had from my idea folder and made notes about the season opening for the Chambersburg Maroons in the Blue Ridge League in 1934. I took the specifics of the event from the Read more…
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