Friday, July 4, 2025

Independence Day - Countdown to the Semiquincentennial...

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  We New Englanders just marked in June the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill.  This flag of New England was flown and carried ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Graduation Day - Holyoke High School - Holyoke, Massachusetts

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1906 postcard With the season of high school graduations upon us, we have a look now at an era where the construction of a high school in to...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Publishers Weekly review - CHILDREN'S WARTIME ADVENTURE NOVELS

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This year, 2025, we mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.  There are many stories of the war and that era, and some of them ...
Monday, April 7, 2025

And now a word from our sponsor...

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Hoppin' down the bunny trail ... t-shirts, buttons, stickers, and more! Check out my twin brother John's cartoons on Redbubble merc...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Two aerial views of Springfield, Mass.

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Here are two aerial views of Springfield, Massachusetts, from postcards.  Above, we have a view of the waterfront with the new Memorial Brid...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Zoom talk on my book CHILDREN'S WARTIME ADVENTURE NOVELS!

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Join me online for a Zoom talk on my book, CHILDREN'S WARTIME ADVENTURE NOVELS! The presentation will be hosted by the Holyoke (Massach...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

NEW IN HARDCOVER - BESIDE THE STILL WATERS - a novel of the Quabbin Reservoir

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This is to announce that my novel BESIDE THE STILL WATERS, is now available in hardcover from Amazon. It's the story of the towns disma...