(Connie Hampton Connally, author of "The Songs We Hide" and the forthcoming "Fire Music" ) For years I've convinced myself I've needed...

At the Gig Harbor Historical Museum this past summer I'm nearing the end of writing my third novel, and I don't think the process will...

(Nancy Archer: photo credit) What inspired you to write The Emblem? I’ve always been drawn to stories about love against the odds,...

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...

Harriet Joyce (Craven) Hawkins (July 6, 1928 to May 27, 2020) holding her daughter, Merrilee Smith (photo courtesy of the Craven family)....

Part 3/4 Ethel Craven-Sweet in her beautiful yellow graduation dress. She was the Valedictorian of Easton High School in 1953 (Photo...

(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 (Roslyn Pioneers: Jim Shepperson, wearing suspenders, is the businessman who didn't tell Black miners in the...

Samuel Craven, one of Roslyn's most respected miners, beloved husband to Ethel Florence Williams Craven, loving father to 13 (image...

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...