The Emblem: Questions and Answers
(Nancy Archer: photo credit) What inspired you to write The Emblem? I’ve always been drawn to stories about love against the odds,...
Rock Made Castle: The Case for Fiction
Why write fiction when real life events are incredible enough? It's a fair enough question, and I've even heard it from my husband, a...
Roslyn's Black Pioneers Part 4/4: Remembering Harriet Joyce (Craven) Hawkins
Harriet Joyce (Craven) Hawkins (July 6, 1928 to May 27, 2020) holding her daughter, Merrilee Smith (photo courtesy of the Craven family)....
Roslyn's Black Pioneers Part 3/4
Part 3/4 Ethel Craven-Sweet in her beautiful yellow graduation dress. She was the Valedictorian of Easton High School in 1953 (Photo...
Roslyn's Black Pioneers: Part 2/4
(Jim Shepperson, the man with the suspenders, is the businessman who convinced Black miners to come to Roslyn back in 1888/89. He...
Roslyn Black Pioneers Part 2/4
Roslyn Black Pioneers (Roslyn Pioneers: Jim Shepperson, wearing suspenders, is the businessman who didn't tell Black miners in the...
Roslyn Black Pioneers Part 1/4
Samuel Craven, one of Roslyn's most respected miners, beloved husband to Ethel Florence Williams Craven, loving father to 13 (image...
Chapter Five of The Emblem
The Emblem is told in two time periods, the 1930's and the late 1880's. Here's a passage that follows one of the first Black miners to...
Holding Both in Tension
We're a month in to the social distancing mandate due to the threat of COVID-19, and I don't have something particularly original to...
The Emblem: Chapter One
Chapter One: March 1889 When he emerged from underground after hours of toil, David couldn’t deny the protest of his back any longer. But...
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