My Thanksgiving
I hope everyone (in the US) had a great Thanksgiving holiday. I am recuperating! Paul and I are empty nesters. Our daughters, Staci and Cori, and their families live about thirty minutes away and our son, Ari, lives in Boston. For the holidays they all move back home...
Thanksgiving – It’s Still Ours Today
Eilenburg was known as a center for German Reformation, prosperous and even boasting a walled exterior by the late sixteenth century. It was greatly favored by its Duke, George of Saxony. Martin Luther called it a blessed lard pit. Then came the Thirty Years’ War. By...
Women’s Work: Teaching in the 19th century American West
Our state’s Teacher’s Convention takes place this month, so I thought it fitting to look back at teaching in 19th century America. As wives and children moved west, following the footsteps of their men-folk, the number of children in western states and territories...
Double, double, toll and trouble…
... fire burn and brimstone bubble. Witches and witchcraft date back through the ages to a time when people worshiped the Mother Earth or nature goddess. It was a time before traditional religion when the unexplained was called magical and people with unique talents...
“Thy Skull Discern a Deeper Hell”
Many readers of Regency-era literature recognize the name "Monk" Lewis. But who the devil was the fellow? Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775 - 1818) was the son of a wealthy Jamaican planter. His mother ran off with the music teacher when her son was six. He later supported...