by janet | May 25, 2009 | Writing history
Just a quick post. It’s beautiful out and I want to work in the garden before it gets too hot for we northwesterners. And I want to write. But I am thinking of vets today, including my late husband who served in Vietnam and my great grandfather who was a surgeon... by janet | May 12, 2009 | Writing history, Writing resources
For the past few months I’ve been up to my eyeballs with the Daily Alta California, a newspaper started in San Francisco in 1849 and the state’s first daily. Using microfilm on loan from the state library down in California, it has been both a monotonous... by janet | Apr 28, 2009 | Maritime history
For the past two years, I’ve been involved in research on the Ann Parry, a 19th century bark that had quite the career. Built in 1825 in Portsmouth NH, she was first for the trades between that town and the Atlantic, then off as a whaler all over the Pacific.... by janet | Apr 12, 2009 | Research
All places have secrets or stories to tell. How they got settled. Why they went away. Who was there first. I have been researching the “Lost Cities of Skagit County.” The county is located in Western Washington, about 50 miles north of Seattle. It’s... by janet | Mar 18, 2009 | Family history
I got in to history because of my great grandfather William F. Osborn’s Civil War journals. He was an assistant surgeon with the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and was, for a few days, a prisoner under Confederate guard during the Battle of Gettysburg. My...