John Wilkes Booth: Did he really die in 1865?

Today, I want to share a little bit of family lore. After I stumbled into contact with a distant cousin, she emailed me pages of an interview that she had done years before with her grandmother. Her grandmother, Rhoda, was sister to my great-grandfather, Freeman Wildrick. In the interview, Rhoda shares a story about their grandmother's sister, Fannie [...]

Bravery vs Cowardice

For the past month, I've been experiencing the horrors of The Civil War. From reading to researching to writing, it's been a constant on my mind. And, what I thought would be a brief section of manuscript to write, has developed into something I never expected. But through this development, I've been able to experience two [...]