Baby Steps
We are history lovers, and I’d love to tell you that this photo illustrates that Ray and I started teaching our eldest history when he was a few months old. It would make a good story, but in reality Ray,…
We are history lovers, and I’d love to tell you that this photo illustrates that Ray and I started teaching our eldest history when he was a few months old. It would make a good story, but in reality Ray,…
While my husband Ray was growing up in Columbia, Tennessee, reading the great books his daddy recommended and soaking up Civil War history from his grandfather, I was growing up sixty-six miles away in Ashland City, where my daddy was…
Writing books about history is a dream come true for my husband Ray. He grew up around words. His daddy worked at the local Columbia, Tennessee, newspaper for more than fifty years. As a boy, Wes carried papers. As a young high…
In the Sloan apartment, Nurse Katherine finds Muriel even worse. After she leaves, Mrs. O’Fallon returns for an unwelcome visit. When Mrs. O’Fallon asks Granny when her husband died, Granny tells her that she doesn’t know that he has died.…
As Margaret continues her complaints in the butcher shop, Mr. McGrath tells her and Helen that he never wanted to be a butcher, but when he was fifteen years old his father died and someone had to take over. Now…
The curtain rises. Gossipy Mrs. O’Fallon wonders who Mr. Harrison the landlord will evict today. Pawnshop owner Mr. Kline shoos Mary the street child away from his shop. Shirt factory owner Mr. Curtis tells the shoeshine boy to shine his shoes…