history
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The Secret of San Pedro la laguna
For the last twelve years, I have been researching Guatemala for my latest novel, “The Secret of San Pedro La Laguna.” My research on Native American Historical Trauma here in America convinces me that the folks of the second and… Continue reading
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A LOGGING TOWN PORTRAIT
George McElroy, photographer from Hayward, WI documented our lifestyle and region. Continue reading
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Hayward and the Big Mill
Anthony Judson Hayward must have come to the site of the town named in his honor well before November 11, 1880, the date the North Wisconsin Lumber Company was organized. Continue reading
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The J J Mysteries
In the spring of 1971, Jewell Johnson graduates from high school, and spends her summer at The Linger Inn, in Northern Wisconsin near Hayward. Her grandparents built up the lakeside bed and breakfast and their farm over many years–and… Continue reading
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Am I White?
I sent my DNA spit-sample to Ancestry.com and discovered I am: 36% Scandinavian 28% Europe Western 20% Irish 9% Ibero-European-mostly centered in France and Spain 1% Mali 1-2% South Indian 1-2% Caucasus I’m mostly white. That is, if the Western European percentage is… Continue reading
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History’s Little Mysteries
One of the things I love about studying history is the sense of how interpretations are overlapped by time. So often what we think is “truth” is opinion, even when we are looking at “facts”. In my Jewell Johnson Mysteries… Continue reading
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