The Sword and Scabbard II: Interview with Author Allen Woods
Last week I reviewed the historical novel, The Sword and Scabbard, set in eighteenth-century Boston on the eve of the American Revolution and War of Independence. This week it is my pleasure to share...
View ArticlePluto in the 17th Century: A Dwarf that Made a Difference!
At the end of an International Astronomical Union Conference in August 2006, after eight days of contentious debate, 424 of the world’s astronomers (about 5% of the world’s ‘professionals’) voted to...
View ArticleThe Gene Keys: Seven Sacred Seals and Grace
Hi everyone. How has summer (for you friends in the northern hemisphere) or winter (those of you in the south) been treating you? I traveled north and returned south and am now digesting the...
View ArticleConserving History: How Blogs and 17th-Century Recipes Repair Relations and...
What could delight a blog writer more than to learn that an article sent out with a press of the ‘publish’ button, and left to wander where it will through the ether of our virtual world, has found...
View Article‘House of Shadows’: a time-slip mystery based in William Craven’s love for...
As 2015 draws toward a close, Nights of the Road blog comes back from travels through time and space, to rest again in the 17th century and at the National Trust property on the Berkshire Downs in...
View ArticleNEW MYTHS FROM OLD: DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE Part One
When Demeter and Persephone tapped me on the shoulder late in 2019, I made no immediate association between them and Frances, Countess Purbeck, 17th century protagonist of Nights of the Road, or her...
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