Just having fun with the Star Wars crawl creator app today, while seriously hopped up on pralines, peppermint bark, and other holiday goodies in my kitchen. Thank God I don’t drink anymore, eh? Seriously, though, 100 years ago today, Emmett was on a train, headed back to Pensacola from Washington, […]
Congratulations to colleagues at the University of West Florida: In the article, Garner said he happened upon the artifact site quite by accident: Driving along, he saw disturbed dirt at a construction site, in an area he’d long thought ‘might’ be the location of the Luna settlement. “Might.” He wasn’t […]
Did you know that there is more than one Emmett Wilson who lived in Pensacola during the turn of the last century? Neither did I — until I found this interesting little article: This article gave me great pause. It was a new article with new information — which is […]
I’m sitting at the desk, the office is perfectly quiet, I have a draft in front of me to start hacking away at… …and I manage, once again, to get distracted from the writing, and to track down the minutiae of the little thing that piqued my interest! Here’s what […]
This was an interesting find the other day. Yes, this is the veritable “Who’s Who” of Florida’s legal and political leadership as of 1899. If you were ANYBODY of importance, your mug was here, in this eye-test of a montage. I went through every single doggone one of these images. […]
I’ve been writing my arse off on Emmett’s second chapter all week. I have a goal to pull down one of the big writing charts that decorate the walls of the writing cave today (Or, tonight, more likely, as I have the usual distractions: Grading a few papers, teaching a […]
While I was in Mississippi last week, I had an experience that seems so typical of the research work on Emmett’s story; i.e., I discovered that Emmett’s uncle lived, literally, down the road from my ancestors in Vicksburg at the turn of the last century. Did they know each other? […]
This paragraph didn’t mean much to me when when I first read The Velveteen Rabbit in third grade, in Mrs. Myer’s class, at St. Mary’s elementary school. I remember finding the book in the school library, looking at the cover, thinking how the story was about stuffed animals (which I […]
I’ve been thinking about this article, The Science of Success, from The Atlantic. I came across it earlier this week, quite by accident, while looking for something else related to Emmett’s research. Funny how these things can sidetrack, and yet, offer intriguing new information that helps me understand this man […]
Here’s a great new resource shared by my dear husband: The University of California/Santa Barbara Cylinder Audio Archive. This is totally separate and unique from the Library of Congress’ National Jukebox! Another new repository of sound from Emmett’s day! What is interesting about this archive is that they are actively […]
Tell my story. 