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One of the early hospitals in Pensacola was St. Anthony’s Hospital and Sanitarium, which also was known as the Pensacola Sanitarium. It was located at the corner of Garden and Baylen Streets. There weren’t many hospitals in Pensacola during the early 1900s; you certainly wouldn’t have seen a large medical […]
I’d love to be able to tell you that writing Emmett’s story is something that feels natural, easy, and fun 100 percent of the time. I wish that were the case. But the reality is that writing is a lot of work. Creating something that hasn’t existed before out of […]
It is fair to conclude that Emmett’s law school diploma was most likely in Latin and his name was Latinized. I thought that was all that needed to be said about Emmett’s diploma: Emmett came home from Stetson, showed the nice diploma to all his friends, slapped it into a […]
If you recall, last month I had a question for Angela the Archivist at Stetson University about Emmett’s law school diploma; specifically: Was Emmett’s law school diploma in Latin? She said she’d get back to me after she and another archivist over at the law school dug around a bit […]
Schools were closed yesterday (and are on a two-hour delay today) because of a snowstorm, so I haven’t had a chance to do much work on Emmett’s book. However, I found something interesting in the microfilm, and from where I sit, 108 years apart from this incident, I think it […]
No one likes to find typographical errors in research documents. Not only are they distracting (i.e., if I find one, I will stop reading the document for content and instead read for other typos), they can give the impression that the data is flawed. Although you’ll find typographical errors in […]
It has been a really good year. I’m thankful to be here, thankful you are here, and thankful for Emmett finding a way into my life, because I (for sure) was not looking for him. I have to admit that I thought I’d be a lot further along in the […]
Happy New Year!
If you were given the chance to go back in time, would you? When I first started Emmett’s bio, if I had been given the option of going back in time to meet Emmett, I’d jumped at the chance, without reservation. But now, almost 20 months into the project, I’d […]
Here’s an interesting item I found on the wonderful DC history resource, Ghosts of DC. It is a pocket directory of apartments, as printed by The Washington Times paper, from 1914. Emmett lived in the Congress Hall Hotel, which catered to congressmen, and was an easy commute. It was right […]
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