Preserving Research Materials from Grandma’s Attic In our digital age of record keeping, photography, e-books, AI, and privacy controls, what will access to firsthand accounts of history look like for the next generation of historical fiction writers? With most of the Greatest Generation gone, the “Depression babies,” who seemingly saved everything, are Boomers’ attics, basements, and storage units filled to the same extent with personal histories stored in diaries,…

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Parades, Pop-Ups, & Planes – July Adventures

March On! I got an extra mile of steps in on July Fourth by marching in our town’s home-grown parade. Not just anyone can march, you have to have either a float or music of some kind or belong to an organized group. I threw some extra red-white-blue garland around Zoe the grandpup’s harness and leash and…

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