Excellent sources and experts consulted thus far in the research.
Friends, I am writing a letter to this woman today. This is Leora M. Sutton, an amateur archaeologist and a historian who has written several research reports and articles about Pensacola, some of which center on Emmett’s time period. I’d like to get her impressions on Gilded Age Pensacola and […]
One of the main ‘tasks’ in writing Emmett’s story is figuring out who he was. What made him tick. The Writer’s Circle featured an interesting tool for writers to use in character analysis: The 49 Personality Archetypes. I tend to think Emmett’s personality triggers were a combination of prestige and […]
I have good progress to report about Emmett and his six month sojourn in Sterling, Illinois, in 1906. First, I finished the microfilm from the Abraham LIncoln Presidential Library in record time. I had no choice; the loan window on this set of film was small. I think I gave […]
If you’ve ever listened to historic recordings found at the National Jukebox (the Library of Congress’ recording archive), you know the recorded tunes or speech can be rough, or hard to hear. Or, as in this example, as featured yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered, creepy. Thomas Edison created a […]
Did you know that the state of Florida actually has it’s own embassy in Washington, DC? True. You won’t find it on Embassy Row, but on Capitol Hill, right behind the Supreme Court on the corner of Second Street NE and East Capitol Street, and across the street from the […]
A few weeks ago, I found out that Emmett decided to pull up stakes and relocate from Marianna, Florida to Sterling, Illinois in January, 1906. This just seemed odd to me: Why would someone up and leave his home, family, business and professional contacts, and budding political network to relocate […]
Yesterday, I ventured inside The Oracle, also known as the National Archives, located at 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Oracle? Hell yeah. It was one of the best days of my life in the world of Emmett Wilson research. In the 25 years that I’ve lived in the DC area (15 […]
I’ve been a little distracted. Not really focused on my work for the past three or four days. Here’s why. The weather has been beautiful here in D.C. It is hard to make myself sit in front of a computer screen, or slog though piles of notes. I think Emmett […]
It has taken about a month to go through every single file I’ve downloaded from microfilm, online newspapers, and other sources to confirm that I have (or have not) the actual image that matches my notes/transcriptions. It’s not a bad thing to do. It was just tedious, and took away […]
For those who have kept up with the activities surrounding the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death, check this out: “The Library of Congress has acquired 540 rare and historic Civil War stereographs from the Robin G. Stanford Collection. The first 77 images are now online, including 12 stereographs of […]
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