Evangeline and Virginia Evangeline Mitchell or Evie as everyone called her was busy at the kitchen counter making biscuits for dinner, listening to Virginia Blake chatter along endlessly about life.  At just 17 years old Virginia was the youngest member of the church social events planning committee and her desire to help was only out done by her thoughts on how it all should be done. She sat cross legged at the table, every now and again straightening the tablecloth that she

The story of an unlikely friendship between four different women who all received a type of “Dear Jane” letter. I’ve already written a short article on “Dear Jane” letters, which, of course, are similar in content to “Dear John” letters. I am in the process of writing a fictional story set during the end of WWII that follows the lives of four women who each receive a letter stating, in various ways, that their significant other will not be returning to them. I love listening

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I haven’t written an article this week, but I’ve been researching and want to share some fascinating discoveries. I love research, and it...

I was researching historical markers in Brevard County when I came across an interesting Revolutionary War Marker. According to the...

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