Looking Forward to Another Year of History

I’m not a big fan of New Years’ Eve. Kissing My Own True Love at midnight is lovely. * But the rest of it? Pffft! New Years’ Day is another kettle of black-eyed peas altogether.** I like to spend the day writing thank-you notes, clearing out the Christmas clutter, organizing my desk, looking back, and…

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Ten, Nine, Eight…..

It’s getting close.  The PBS series Mercy Street premieres on January 17.  Heroines of Mercy Street* will be released on February 16.   Am I excited?  You have to ask? If you want a quick peek at the series,  check out this You Tube video (and the others on the same channel): (Reminder, if you receive…

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Mercy Street (aka A Moment of Blatant Self-Promotion)

Just so you know, this is what I spent the last ten weeks doing: It’s the companion volume to a new PBS historical drama about nurses in the Civil War. The PBS series uses a real Civil War hospital as the setting for a fictionalized (and quite gorgeous) drama. (Check out some of promotional pieces…

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