When thirteen-year-old Carter McGlone removes a medal from around the neck of a skeleton he stumbles across in 1912, he has no idea that fifteen years later that same medal will take him on a journey back in time to 1863, where he meets and falls in love with Helen Jones; comes face to face with seventeen-year-old Kiernan O?Doherty who, some sixty years in the future, will be involved in the murder of Carter's girlfriend, Emmaline; and gets caught up in a minor battle of the Civil War. Take this incredible trip with Carter ?a wild ride through time, war, and romance.
Camptown stories present the presidential and the provencial, the renown and the rustic, the champs and the churls, with the the same unflinching honesty and humor. The sum of author Kenn Grimes' sketches adds up to a portrait of the character of America's heartland, and of our human heart.
In 1919, Myrtle Tully, recently returned to America from serving as a "Hello Girl" in Europe during World War I, takes a job as assistant librarian at Adelaide College in Booker Falls, Michigan. The discovery of a cache of letters received by a student who held the same position Myrtle now holds, Yvette Sinclair, shortly before she was found strangled to death in the same library some twenty-eight years earlier, a crime never solved, sets Myrtle off on a quest to uncover the killer's identity. Information she finds results in the trial and conviction of Yvette's boyfriend at the time. But Myrtle is not convinced he is guilty. Further investigation eventually results in Myrtle's life being put in jeopardy by the real killer.
Three murders in four days! That's a lot of crime in the 1920s for Booker Falls, a small town tucked away in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, a part of the state's Upper Peninsula. First it was attorney Rudolph Folger, then bank teller Rachel Steinmyer, and last, her father Isiah, the owner of the bank. Local constable Henri de la Cruz is mystified, which only piques the interest of his sometime girlfriend, Myrtle Tully, assistant librarian at the local college and self-declared amateur sleuth. And by rights, as Myrtle was personally responsible for recently solving a long-ago homicide. Now she is determined to put her skills to work again on this trifecta of murders to see what she can discover, much to Henri's dismay. Are there three killers running loose in Booker Falls? Or is one villain responsible for all of the crimes? Myrtle is determined to find a connection between the three cases--a seemingly impossible task as the victims and how they were killed have little in common.
The American Civil War, fought over the subject of slavery, stands as a turning point in the country's history. Yet, more than a century and half after the end of that war, racial bias still threatens to rip this nation apart. The Whipping Post, lays bare the schism within a family divided in its perception and treatment of "Negroes." To some they are fellow human beings; to others, they are property whose sole purpose in life is to serve their masters. Otilio Middendorf is a successful Kentucky farmer, the proud owner of two dozen slaves; the father of four children; and the husband of a loving wife. But he is also a cruel man who orders the whipping of his own twelve-year-old son when the boy refuses to whip a young slave girl who, in all innocence, kisses the boy on the cheek. BOOK ONE (The Farm) depicts the daily life of the Middendorf family and the slaves who work their hemp farm in Kentucky from 1857 to 1864. BOOK TWO (The Dispersed) is a collection of eight short stories that follow the lives of eight of the farm's residents after the farm is burned down by Union sympathizers: Otilio's wife, their children, three slaves, and the farm overseer.
In the summer of 1967, the good old days were ending for the hard-core 1st Brigade LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division, perhaps the finest maneuver element of its size in the history of the United States Army. It was a bitter pill. After working on their own in Vietnam for more than two years, the Brigade LRRPs were ordered to join forces with the division once again. But even as these formidable hunters and killers were themselves swallowed up by the Screaming Eagles' Division LRPs to eventually become F Co., 58th Infantry, they continued the deadly, daring LRRP tradition. From saturation patrols along the Laotian border to near-suicide missions and compromised positions in the always dangerous A Shau valley, the F/58th unflinchingly faced death every day and became one of the most highly decorated companies in the history of the 101st.
Since I began Civil War re-enacting in 1988, there have been two schools of thought regarding the uniform of the Confederate soldiers. One is that the Rebels were never ragged, that was just a romantic myth started after the war. The other school of thought is that the Rebels were always ragged and wore whatever they could get their hands on. I decided that the best way to discover the truth is by investigating, what the soldiers themselves said regarding their clothing through letters, diaries and memoirs. This book uses the soldiers own words regarding Confederate uniforms and includes many surprising anecdotes and some "firsts" regarding incidents of the Civil War.
Camptown stories present the presidential and the provencial, the renown and the rustic, the champs and the churls, with the the same unflinching honesty and humor. The sum of author Kenn Grimes' sketches adds up to a portrait of the character of America's heartland, and of our human heart.
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