Pilgrim Cuisine Revisited
How do we know what the Pilgrims ate or how they cooked? With Thanksgiving a few days away, I’d like to offer readers my article on the...
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....
The Process of Discovery
At "A Book in Hand" author's forum in Dennis, Massachusetts, I spoke last month to a group of writers about the process of discovery...
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...