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 | Mar 6, 2009 | Research, Writing history
I’m now a week into the portable outhouse in my backyard as I work getting the sewer pipes replaced. Using it brings back memories of YWCA camp in the Pennsylvania woods with wolf spiders in the corner and a black snake that liked to sun himself at 1:00 PM in path to... by janet | Feb 26, 2009 | Research, Writing history
My house is 105 years and I’m having a fatal breakdown with the sewer line. It must be 80 or 90 years old. I know this because in 1913, a photographer, I think Sanderson, flew over Sehome Hill in a balloon and took a picture of the neighborhood. Going up the alley... by janet | Feb 21, 2009 | Writing history
It’s been quite a while since my last post, but I have been learning the frameworks of a blog while I balance work at a museum and conduct research in my off hours on a 19th century bark. For a writer and for the subject of all things historical such a blog needs to...