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On October 15, 2022, the Skaneateles Historical Society hosted my first-ever Book Signing Event, although it became much more than that....

Print and electronic copies of The Conductor - Book 1 of Rian Krieger's Journey are now available on Amazon and printer versions may be...

I heard my grandmother Helen Warrior Betts say those words a hundred times and they were spot on. She was feisty, opinionated, and...

I think back on the arc of my life, and the writing I have done as a child, a teenager, a college student, and in my adult life. I...

I am pleased to announce that Sunbury Press of Boiling Springs, PA has agreed to publish Book 1 of Rian Krieger's Journey: The Conductor.

I once fired a secretary because of an apostrophe. Honest. Now in fairness, at the time I was the director of a new science museum. It...

Ask most people when the era of rapid long-distance communication began, and they’ll tell you with the invention of the electric ...

There’s a wonderful movie called The Wife in which [alleged author] Jonathan Price locks [the real author] Glenn Close in the study ...

[Author note: this blog was originally called "History Pendulum."] Why History Pendulum? The answer goes back fifty years. I had been a ...

Today is December 7, 2019, 78 years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I take this occasion for a bit of nautical history… There...

One of the coolest museums I have visited recently is the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, WY. Cody was a Pony Express rider, a...

Last Thursday, I attended a delightful concert at the Harwich Community Center. Cranfest in the Courtyard presented folk singer Zoe...

I’ve enjoyed every profession I’ve had. Only my first job (teaching high school history in the 1970s) and my present one (writing a...