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A few days ago, I was reading through archived copies of Stetson University’s student newspaper, the Stetson Weekly Collegiate, and I noticed that in some of the issues printed either before or right after graduation, some of those papers printed the graduating class’ ‘Prophecy.’ This is a old tradition for […]
I’m curious how other writers of historic bios handle their biographical subjects, particularly when the lives were short and relatively obscure, as was Emmett’s. I was intrigued with the story of Alonzo Hereford Cushing. Cushing was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on November 6, 2014 — more than 150 […]
If you think writing a book is about sitting down before a keyboard and ‘just doing it’, I say, maybe. It depends on how long you’ve been living with the subject. Personally, I feel like I know Emmett and several key ‘characters’ in his story well. I would never presume […]
Do you have any off-limit topics in family gatherings? Sure you do! We all do! And when you have a big family (like I do), you know there are several key topics you just don’t discuss, unless you want to have a meltdown on a holiday. I’ve been a witness […]
In an earlier post — hell, in several earlier posts — I politely beg and plead for assistance in finding Emmett’s Elusive Scrapbooks. The deal is, Emmett kept scrapbooks, and he willed them to his namesake, Emmett Wilson Kehoe, when he died. I have been in contact with the Kehoe […]
In case you are wondering why the odd entries lately (i.e., not a lot of direct research reporting), it is because I’m grading final papers and on Thanksgiving break at my in-laws’. There are 29 people (17 children from 16 on down) in my in-laws’ house this week. Eight dogs. […]
Several weeks ago, at the start of football season, I mentioned my alma mater, Mississippi State University, and how I love my team, good, bad, and mostly terrible, because — let’s face it — MSU has never been number one of anything in football, has never been considered for a […]
Today’s throwback-Thursday research find is from the Milton (Fla.) Gazette, 1912. Pray, tell, what is ‘the girlish age?’ And what if that operator candidate was mature, but ‘a girl at heart?’
Yesterday, I mentioned that Emmett’s grandfather had a law partner, S.R. Mallory, and they worked in the Mallory Building in Pensacola during Reconstruction. My friend and colleague, the excellent Jacki Wilson at the Pensacola HIstorical Society sent me this: Jacki told me that what was on the original site of […]
In between writing and digging around in a new-to-me database this week, I’ve been reading microfilm copies of The West Florida Commercial and The Pensacola Observer, 1867-69. These newspapers were published during Reconstruction, and there are only scattered issues in existence. By 1871, both papers had ceased publication. With so […]
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