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Autumn 2008 Tour into Western North Carolina, Day 1

Posted on September 21, 2008 by AdminSeptember 21, 2008

I rolled out of Raleigh about 6:15 Thursday morning 11 September, expecting a 3.5 hour drive to Boone. Drizzle made an inauspicious traveling companion. More unwelcome was the thick fog that lowered over Highway 421 just west of Winston-Salem. In … Continue reading →

Autumn 2008 Tour into Western North Carolina, Day 2

Posted on September 21, 2008 by AdminSeptember 21, 2008

Friday 12 September didn’t dawn bright and clear in Boone. That nasty fog still socked us in. Around 8:00 a.m., when I was ready to leave, Marcia got in her car and drove out ahead of me, like a pilot … Continue reading →

Autumn 2008 Tour into Western North Carolina, Day 3

Posted on September 21, 2008 by AdminSeptember 21, 2008

Lucy Doll and I had decided to cook a breakfast for each other. Saturday morning the 14th, I cooked steel-cut oats with dried cherries and blueberries, allspice, flax seeds, and walnuts. Usually I add some pure maple syrup. We tried … Continue reading →

Will the Real Banastre Tarleton Please Stand Up?

Posted on September 18, 2008 by AdminDecember 17, 2014

In Camp Follower, I wrote one of the most controversial figures from the Revolutionary War, British Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton, into the novel as a secondary character. In contrast to creating and sustaining a fictional character, wrestling a reasonable Tarleton … Continue reading →

Camp Follower

Posted on September 18, 2008 by AdminSeptember 18, 2008

Information about the third book in my suspense series, Camp Follower, has been posted to my publisher’s web site. (Scroll down on the web page to find it.) Whittler’s Bench Press, the fiction imprint of Dram Tree Books, will release … Continue reading →

The Chocolate Challenge, February 2008

Posted on February 8, 2008 by AdminFebruary 8, 2008

While the third draft of Camp Follower is out with readers, I’m engaged in the Chocolate Challenge during the month of February to assist me in starting the first draft of the fourth book and then moving it forward. The … Continue reading →

Another Draft of Camp Follower

Posted on January 25, 2008 by AdminJanuary 25, 2008

I’ve had my nose to the grindstone shaping the third draft of Camp Follower. Next month, I hope to bury myself in the first draft of the fourth book of this series. In the meantime: In December, The Blacksmith’s Daughter … Continue reading →

Revolutionary War Field Days 2007 at Camden, SC

Posted on November 8, 2007 by AdminNovember 8, 2007

Saturday morning, 3 November, our panel discussion “ In the Army and at Home: Women and Children of the Revolution” was well attended. (From left to right: Dr. Christine Swager, Sheila Ingle, and me.) This was my first opportunity to … Continue reading →

First Interview

Posted on October 2, 2006 by AdminNovember 29, 2013

My first media interview, printed in the Sunday 1 October edition of The
Spartanburg Herald-Journal, can be read online at the following link:

http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061001/NEWS/610010327/1028

Ann Patterson, book columnist with the paper, interviewed me. We talk about history, camp followers, battle reenactments, women in the American Revolution, and writing. Thanks to Ann for the interview.

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Reenacting

Posted on September 27, 2006 by AdminNovember 29, 2013

Thanks to everyone who sent congratulations via email and blog comments.

I’ve been a reenactor for almost seven years. At living history events such as those listed on the calendar, I portray the wife of a soldier (otherwise known as a "camp follower") in His Majesty’s 33rd Light Company of Foot. Although the term "camp follower" conjures images of a shabbily dressed, poxed prostitute who skulks around the fringe of a military camp, prostitutes made up only a small percentage of camp followers during the Revolutionary War. A camp follower was any non-combatant attending a military group: a soldier’s wife, sibling, child, parent, servant, or slave, for example, or an artisan (blacksmith, wheelwright, etc.), merchant (stationer, green grocer, etc.), trader, or peddler. One reason I reenact is to help educate the public about real history.

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