Book Club Visit
I had an absolute blast with this crew! The book club decided to read my book for their July meeting and invited me to join them. Our server, Jacob, even got in on the discussion.
To Write, or Not to Write One of the stories that came up while researching and writing A Common Life started with a single line in a diary entry from July 7, 1918: Three of the negro soldiers at C Dodge were found guilty and hung Friday morning. Oh these are terrible times. My initial reaction to reading the entry was, "Whaaaa?!?!?" There were no entries foreshadowing it and she never mentioned the event again. I researched enough to know what happened and why the 3 men were executed. But from the very first newspaper article I read about the hanging, I thought the details just didn't add up. I wrote about some of that for the book (World War I chapter) but I didn't dig more deeply into it because it was peripheral to the diary itself. For A Common Life , I couldn't justify the time to dig into the story behind the headlines and articles I read or I'd have never gotten the book published in 2022. But the story hasn't let me alone. I still find my self th...
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