It's time to celebrate -- 'cause the 3rd edition of
Shades of the Departed, and the 1st of the New Year, is on the stands! Included in this issue are wonderful contributions by --
- Donna Pointkouski,
- Sheri Fenley,
- George Geder,
- Rebecca Fenning,
- Denise Barrett Olson,
- Penelope Dreadful (aka Denise Levenick),
- Caroline Pointer, and, of course, our leader and mentor,
- footnoteMaven.
My contribution is an article which focuses on
a journey back in time with
James Madison Hall (1819-1866) and his kith 'n kin. And speaking of . . . One hundred fifty years ago today . . . on this very date . . . the 16th day of January . . . in the year 1860 . . . James Madison Hall sat down, picked up his pen, and composed a few sentences about the events of his day. J.M. Hall would continue this practice on a daily basis until his death in September of 1866. Sooooo . . . Beginning today, the sesquicentennial of the date when Hall began his Journal, I began posting -- and will hopefully be able to continue to do so on a daily basis -- the date-appropriate entries from the referenced Journal. These Journal excerpts are being given their very own blog --
benotforgot-journal.blogspot.com -- which will automatically fead to
my Twitter account (just in case you would like to follow me there). As time allows, I will add notes of interest about the people and places he mentions, as well as tidbits of information about world events of the same time period. But in the meantime . . . Make sure you hop on over to
Shades of the Departed to check out what
fM put together to celebrate the beginning of a New Year.
P.S. FYI . . . I like to download each new issue of Shades as a PDF file and save a copy of it on both of my computers. That is easier for me (especially with my dial-up connection) for when I want to check back on something I remember reading. I have also saved copies on a flash-drive, which I will be taking to my Mom tomorrow, so she'll have her very own copies.
