Author: LCRWriter
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CHARACTER LIST HATFIELD 1677
I hope I didn’t forget anybody:) MAIN AND SECONDARY CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Benjamin Waite Puritan colonist and military scout Martha Leonard Waite His wife, abducted at Hatfield Their children Mary, Mattie and Sally, abducted at Hatfield The Allis Family Their neighbors, whose home was within the stockade Lieutenant Allis and his wife…
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EXTRAS FOR READERS OF HATFIELD 1677
If you bought my debut novel, you deserve a few freebies. I deeply appreciate your readership, your reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Goodreads, and your purchases that kept Hatfield 1677 on the Amazon Hot New Releases List for its eligible first month! Please continue to post reviews, recommend Hatfield 1677 to friends and…
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HAPPY FATHERS’ DAY
My father passed in 2009 at the age of 86, my husband in 2012 at the age of 57, so all my daughter and I have today are memories. My mother was the one I turned to for hugs and confidences and comfort, but my father was the person for adventure. My Dad took me…
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BIBLIOGRAPHY for Hatfield 1677
As promised, a list of many, but not all, of the sources I used in my research for Hatfield 1677. I discovered the story of Massachusetts Bay Puritan colonists Benjamin and Martha Waite and their adversary, the Algonquian sachem Ashpelon, at the Carlsbad, California genealogical library in 1993. I continued my research in the summer…
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Available Now!
Excerpt from Hatfield 1677, Chapter Three: On May 22, a small band of men traveled to the Falls to search for those who might have survived the battle, and to bury our dead. Filled with grief and the foreboding of more pain to come, I accompanied them. Blogs may be weekly this month as I…
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Silent Spring
Rachel Carson wrote her masterpiece, Silent Spring, after receiving a letter in 1958 from her friend, describing the death of birds around her property in Massachusetts, resulting from the aerial spraying of DDT to kill mosquitoes. A decade ago, Elon Musk—who brought about the death of the little blue Twitter bird—argued with Larry Page over the pros…
Laura C. Rader 