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Memories of Notre Dame de Paris
Susan Vaughan here. I’d planned a different topic for this post, but fate sent me a different direction. I was horrified on Monday to learn of the blaze and watch the flames that destroyed much of Paris’s iconic Notre Dame … Continue reading
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Tagged cathedral, mystery writers, Notre Dame, Paris, Paris landmark, Susan Vaughan
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HAPPY VERNAL EQUINOX
Susan Vaughan here. Happy spring to everyone, although here in Maine true spring won’t show up for a month or more. Nevertheless, March 20, 2019 is the spring, or vernal, equinox in the northern hemisphere. As dawn is the time … Continue reading
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Tagged calendar, Easter, Eggs, equinox, holidays, spring, Susan Vaughan, vernal
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ANNA, IDA B., AND MARY
Susan Vaughan here. When I was growing up, I remember studying women’s efforts to gain the right to vote. The suffragettes I read about in history class were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Julia Ward Howe and others—who were all white. … Continue reading
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Tagged black history, suffragettes, Susan Vaughan, these truths, women's rights
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POPULAR CRIME PAYS
Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes. (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2) Susan Vaughan here. My husband shakes his head at my fascination with the court news and crime articles in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Lizzie Borden, Maine Crime Writers, mystery writing, Popular Crime, Susan Vaughan, true crime
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Technology Hates Me
Susan Vaughan here. Yes, it’s the holidays, and the next year is nearly upon us. I’d intended to use the month of December, at least the lead-up to Christmas, to make progress on the new book. Alas, the folders of … Continue reading
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Lea Wait/Cornelia Kidd