Tag: fiction
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Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at Character Café
Featuring Characters from Voices in the Sanitorium Over a decade ago, I had a tea party with two of my best friends on the grounds of the former West Mountain Sanitarium located on the hillside above Scranton, Pennsylvania. Thus began my fascination with the history of tuberculosis and specifically the staff and patients who had…
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Mornings at Character Cafe — featuring Lottie from the Brides of Pelican Rapids series
Welcome to Character Café, Miss Charlotte Kennedy. Oh, I’d be obliged if you’d call me Lottie. We don’t hold to formalities these days, as much as my Pa wishes it weren’t so. Pa would like to pretend the War of Rebellion never took place, Magnolia Glen wasn’t stripped of all its silver and jewelry, Mama’s…
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A Morning at Character Café with Jessie Whyne
Jessie Whyne! It is so nice to meet you. I’ve heard about your detective agency and your successes in solving mysteries. To me, you are like a real-life, grown-up Trixie Belden. Oh my goodness, I was obsessed with Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew as a child. Can you believe that I was so convinced I…
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Mornings at Character Café – Featuring Hope from Stacy T. Simmon’s A Journey of Hope
Welcome to Character Café, Hope Fuller! I heard that congratulations are in order! Aww, thank you, Amy! Yes, I am the proud aunt of the sweetest little niece, Isabella Catherine Georgia Gaines. I’ll be in town for a few weeks to help take care of her. I bet her big brother just adores her. Who…
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Chronicles of Courage — Episode 4
Christmas at the West Mountain Sanitarium In the 1930s As I researched Voices in the Sanitorium, I spent many hours poring over old newspapers. What an adventure each edition of The Scranton Republican and The Scranton Times became! The most mentions of the hospital on West Mountain always happened during the months of November and…
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A Night at Character Café — VOICES!
If we hadn’t gone through this summer of torture with Aislyn, I wouldn’t have learned the importance of family communication and connectiveness.
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Mornings at Character Café — The Promise
Are you okay? You look like you could use some TLC. Let me just finish cleaning off this table, and you can sit down right here. We believe a great hot drink and some comfort food is great therapy here at Character Café. Thank you. My name is Dakota… Taylor (sniffs). I’m from Boston, Massachusetts.…