The Pastry Chef

by Caroline Warfield

As England slipped from the Georgian era into the Victorian and the sun no longer set on the British Empire, the country produced a bumper crop of interesting people: rogues, villains, explorers, heroes,… Continue reading →

Seeds of Survival, Bernard McMahon’s Contribution to America

by Becky Lower

I started to write this post about the gardens of Monticello, located near Charlottesville, VA, and home of our nation’s third president, Thomas Jefferson. But the more I read about how his vast estate… Continue reading →

Living History: Funk Heritage Center Preserving the Past for the Future, Part I

by Linda Bennett Pennell

In a beautiful corner of northwest Cherokee County, Georgia lies Waleska, a village that boasts one traffic light and the United Methodist associated Reinhardt University. I could write volumes about what the college… Continue reading →

Where the Roads of Imagination Lead

by Caroline Warfield

If fiction fuels the mind, historical fiction poured jet fuel into mine from early on. It created a lifelong fascination with history and pushed me to question everything I read. Why question? At… Continue reading →