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Blog Posts from Terry IreneMan’s Best FriendsPosted by Terry Irene Blain May 13 2012, 12:38 am Man’s best friend Once our son’s grew up and left home, my husband and I got puppies. So now we do agility with our dogs, a Scottish terrier named Smokey and a Pembroke Welsh corgi named Bandit. So now I’m thinking about how to incorporate dogs into my stories. Since I write (mostly) in the American west, there are plenty of opportunity to have a dog as a character. In one story the cowboy hero brings his new wife a puppy. Ranches often had dogs, as they were useful in helping drive cattle. My husband’s family had a dog, Buster, that would help his father round up the cattle. Our Welsh corgi would be over the moon if we had some cows so we could tell him to go get and drive them in for milking. Walk the Walk to Talk the TalkPosted by Terry Irene Blain Apr 13 2012, 3:21 pm Walk the walk to talk the talk. I remember a comment a friend of mine made after reading a very inaccurate historical novel* (see below). She said there ought to be a rule that you can’t write a historical novel unless you’ve been camping at least once. I think she might have a point. I think one of the goals of the historical writer is to bring the past alive for those in the present. You can do all the research in the world into the history, politics, customs, costumes, etc. And an imagination is a great thing, but the Elizabeth I, Queen of EnglandPosted by Terry Irene Blain Mar 14 2012, 3:19 am Elizabeth I Since this is Women’s History month, we were asked to blog about women who made a mark in history. Elizabeth had always been a hero of mine, probably why my MA in History is a specialization in Tudor and Stuart England. Elizabeth’s greatness lies in two parts. The first that she survives to become Queen, and second that she guided England from the disastrous state she inherited to a wealthy and stable country. As the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was born a princess, but as Henry progressed through his six wives, she was declared Teaching history with storiesPosted by Terry Irene Blain Feb 13 2012, 6:06 pm in film, history, teaching, westerns Two things happened last week that prompted this blog. There was a discussion on our loop about the lack of history knowledge in today’s students, and I watched one of my favorite movies. The movie was Red River (1948), a western staring John Wayne and Montgomery Cliff. As a history professor tried to make history real for my students, and one of the ways I did this was to show the first twenty minutes of this film for a discussion of the westward moment in America history. For those of you who haven’t seen the film, here’s a brief summary Terry vs. TechnologyPosted by Terry Irene Blain Dec 13 2011, 2:47 am OK, if you’re reading this, then I won my latest battle with technology. You see, the way to post to this Hearts Through History blog changed from when I blogged last. And if you’ve read my previous blog “I Love/Hate Technology” you know I often have trouble with technical things. One of my problems is that the instructions for technical devices are written by people who already know how to operate the device. And therefore their instructions seem to be a little sketchy for us non-technical folk. (BIG congratulations to who sent our instructions for the new blog –
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