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 […]
As promised, an update: I reached out to Katie Wilson Meade’s granddaughter Tuesday morning. She responded within a few hours — positively — and is willing to share information and (get this): Photos! Of! Emmett! Wilson! Photos that (in all probability) are those I have not seen! Maybe he’s smiling […]
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 […]
I am breathing a huge sigh of relief, as I have just submitted the final grades for my last class of 2015. Don’t get me wrong. I love being a teacher. I love the interaction with students; I enjoy helping them become better writers. But this turned out to be […]
As of this afternoon, I was able to take down one of the road map wall hangings. Hooray! Writing progress! My office already looks a little neater, too. I’ve been rather quiet and slow with the posts this month. I’ve directed most of my time and energy to the second […]
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? […]
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