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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…
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A Gift to You-Cut Scene from Hatfield 1677
Sinterklass und Zwarte Piete, Netherlands and New Amsterdam My main character, Benjamin Waite, and his friend Stephen Jennings, traveled hundreds of miles on their quest to find their captured wives and children and ransom them back from their Algonquian captors. As they must travel through the colony of New York, only recently taken by the…
Laura C. Rader 