Tag: history
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Trapped in the Electric City Escape Room
Inspired by an actual escape room that we visited with hour friends Eric and Nikki. Actual public domain photos of coal mines illustrate the tale. Sara knew Nessa was up to something before she even stepped through the front doors of the Electric Building. Her friend stood near the entrance to the escape room with…
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Amy’s Characters through the Decades
A Special Morning at Character Cafe Amy: Good morning, Character Café friends! What a treat today is. I’m sharing breakfast with leading ladies from nearly all my published novels. As many of you know, I tend to linger in three favorite eras: the 1880s, the 1930s, and the present day. Each group of characters is…
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A Novel Museum — Voices in the Sanitorium
A Glimpse of the Voices in the Sanitorium Mini-Museum Though the 2009 components of my novel are fictional, as far as characters and some of the settings, the diary excerpts from 1931 are based on actual characters I “met” through interviews with relatives, photographs donated to me, trips to local historical societies, and hours reading…
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A Morning at Character Cafe — Estelle’s Endeavor
Welcome to Character Café, Estelle. It’s great to have a fellow book lover with one of my dream jobs here for a visit. I would love to work in a library and have the task of planning a book sale for a cause. I am blessed to have a job where I can share my…
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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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Mornings at Character Café
Meet BLAIRE BEECHY from WAGONS WEST How would you describe yourself?Well . . . I am . . . a widow. I hate the word, I can’t stand the thought, but that’s what I am. When Howard passed so suddenly and, uh . . . Well, I was a bit lost. For my adult life,…