
Getting it right
I share the hard stories. I love telling difficult stories. But lately its’ become harder to tell them. Continue reading Getting it right
I share the hard stories. I love telling difficult stories. But lately its’ become harder to tell them. Continue reading Getting it right
I recently completed extensive research on the 150 historic properties that line St. Charles Main Street, the most famous Main Street of Missouri. Continue reading History – We All Have It
That simple bronze monument, with two figures, a tall white man, and a black man rising on one knee, alongside him. The first ever to include a black person in our Nation’s Capital. It would share that man, with the Emancipation Proclamation at his elbow, leaning benevolently over a slave who had broken his own shackles, suggesting that the slave rise! Continue reading The Eyes of That Time
In 1885, William Greenleaf Eliot, the grandfather of poet T.S. Eliot had published THE STORY OF ARCHER ALEXANDER FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM March 30, 1863, which is what Dr. Henry Louis Gates would call a “slave narrative”. Eliot, the founder of Washington University in St. Louis Missouri, and a young minister who had brought the Unitarian Church to St. Louis in 1834, simply refers to himself as “A member of the Western Sanitary Commission in St. Louis, MO”. Continue reading March 30, 1863
Sometimes falling down the rabbit hole can be a good thing! Continue reading Rabbit Holes
The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to Freedom March 30, 1863 by William G. Eliot, a member of the … Continue reading Archer Alexander
just a simple wordsmith… Continue reading Wordsmith