History, Real Life and Faith
What’s the point of reading literature? Long ago and far away when I was a senior in high school, my AP English teacher stopped in the middle of a lecture to scold us. “Do you know why we read great works of literature?” Mr. Bergeron demanded. “It’s because you cannot experience everything in one lifetime. Reading literature enables you to learn…
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Have you ever been house touring? We’ve always enjoyed the scene in A&E’s Pride and Prejudice where Elizabeth Bennett tours Mr. Darcy‘s mansion and shocks both of them by meeting him down by the lake. Apparently even 200 years ago, visiting the large unique homes of the wealthy was a tourist past time. Touring homes, however, is something I don’t…
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Have you ever been house touring? We’ve always enjoyed the scene in A&E’s Pride and Prejudice where Elizabeth Bennett tours Mr. Darcy‘s mansion and shocks both of them by meeting him down by the lake. Apparently even 200 years ago, visiting the large unique homes of the wealthy was a tourist past time. Touring homes, however, is something I don’t…
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I’m just back from a two-week swing through Tennessee and Kentucky where I spent six days in libraries and the rest of the time hunting up sites and experiences related to my historical characters. I’m a lover of travel stories and two weeks ago I found myself in the middle of one of those serendipitous meetings of unusual people linked to my…
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I’m just back from a two week trip through the Civil War South hunting information and getting a feel for the scenery. Because I knew I was going to spend days in libraries reading letters and seeking details, I invested in an Ipad 2 (16 GB for those who care–the cheapest one) prior to my departure. I’m so glad I…
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Every time I’m in London, I visit Westminster Abbey. A lovely Anglican cathedral across the street from London’s golden Parliament buildings, it’s been there for nearly a thousand years. The original Roman Catholic abbey was built outside the walls of London, but it’s now in the center of town. Winston Churchill’s World War II Cabinet rooms are just down the…
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