At the Colonial Inn in Concord, Massachusetts, they keep the register on display, set to October 19, 1895.One traveler on this list is from Ohio, but the rest are from sooooo nearby… my friend pointed out that in 1895,Lowell (about 14 miles from Concord on today’s roads) and Waltham (about 11 miles)were far enough away… Read more »
mysteries
The Last Few Days in Pictures
I finished a major revision I’ve been working on since before Halloween. Whew! I took a trip to see my parents for Mother’s Day.Here’s a blurry picture of me and my Dad in Wanamaker’s Department Store in Philly, on a very rainy day.They have a famous organ in the store. My Dad talked aboutgoing to… Read more »
Packing, but —
— just had to come onto the blog to say that the final (3rd) episode of Series 2 of the BBC’s Sherlock, “The Reichenbach Fall,” is among my favorite ever 90 minutes of television. Congratulations to everyone who had anything to do with making this episode. I believe in these characters, and all of their… Read more »
Checking in with Some Monday Randutiae
Last week, while stuck in traffic on I-95 in preparation for being extremely late to my trapeze conditioning class, I noticed that the leaves are starting to change. Hooray! I’m reading a mystery by Ellis Peters called The House of Green Turf. I’ve been enjoying it from the first sentence: But for a five minute… Read more »
