by janet | Jun 19, 2009 | Writing history, Writing resources
I’ve decided to add something to this blog. Every year for the past thirteen years, I have gone to English Camp on San Juan Island and have demonstrated mid- 19th century folkways. There’s a lot of butter making and biscuit cutting going on — as... 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...