Jennie, part 1: The Defalcation
In the summer of 1892, my great-great-grandmother's first husband made the national news.
Author: Anne
Diary 1862: The complete text
I hope you enjoy Catharine's voice as much as I do.
Footnotes in WordPress
I wanted to display notes on the text as tooltips, and I wanted to include links to sources within the tooltip. It took some doing.
TU 2.0
Career news: I have retired from the Executive Director position at Theatre Unbound after nineteen years with the company. TU has now survived all of its founders, and is set to embark on the next twenty years with new energy and flair. “Iphigenia and Other Daughters” by Ellen McLaughlin is running now – check it...
From texting gloves to tragedy in high society
In which the cute story I thought I’d tell is quickly reduced to insignificance.
Diary 1862, Part 4: War, Words, and Silence
At first glance, only one entry - the last - makes reference to the Civil War. But looking at the word frequencies in Catharine's diary hints at another, more oblique, more personal story.
Diary 1862, part 3: Over the River and Through the Woods and Up to the Quarry and Over to Earlville
She makes me and V.I. Warshawski look like homebodies.
Diary 1862, Part 2: The writer’s identity
Whoever the writer is, it's certainly not Catharine's husband Amos, unless he's in the habit of referring to himself in the third person.
Diary 1862, Part 1: Who?
Through much of 2017 and 2018 I helped my mom pack up her house and get ready to move. In the process, we found this little diary among her mother’s things. Whose was it?
A Strange Object of Nostalgia
In the mid-1990s, I spent some time temping as a legal document coder. Those were the days when it was so expensive to scan and OCR documents that it was cheaper to hire armies of temps to read documents and type the names in those documents into a database optimized for searching names. One of...