Happy Birthday, Thornton Burgess
Over 140 years ago a baby was born in my house at 6 School Street in Sandwich, Massachusetts. A fierce snowstorm made travel impossible...
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Talking with Thornton Burgess
Some years ago I had an assignment with Cape Cod Life to write an article on Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts. I spent more...
Thornton Burgess and The Bradford Washburn Award
Hi, I've taken a considerable break from this blog for diverse reasons, some more valid than others, but never lost my original intention...
A Preschool Epiphany
A few weeks ago I experienced an epiphany, the kind that lingers in your mind in the days that follow it... I had just dropped my...
What Goes Around Comes Around
What Goes Around Comes Around, Historically Speaking My grandmother Helen Moore was born in 1883 in Dumont New Jersey, one of the...
Live Radio Interview
The prospect of being interviewed recently on live radio was exciting, but I felt a little nervous as I drove to Woods Hole and parked...
Thornton W. Burgess & JFK
Fifty years ago today, Thornton Burgess, then 89, learned along with the rest of the world the devastating news that President John F....
A Writer's Firsts!
Every writer has dreams. A few dreams of mine have become reality in recent months. Let me share with you writing "firsts" that have come...
Who Named Peter Rabbit?
If you have been introduced to a delightful animal character named Peter Rabbit in the works of both Beatrix Potter and Thornton Burgess,...
The Naming of a Book
My original title for this book came easily after I began to research it: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess. The first time I wrote those...
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