Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 93
April 27, 2016
Grace Coolidge in the Kitchen
When Calvin Coolidge wanted to marry Miss Grace Goodhue, her parents were not happy.
Young Grace Goodhue was definitely what contemporaries would call “a looker!”
The Coolidge Proposal
Some time after Calvin Coolidge began seeing the pretty Miss Goodhue, he took her to meet his family. They liked her. Everybody did. His grandmother said, “She’s a likely gal, Calvin, you should marry her.” “Think I will,” Coolidge replied.
Sometime afterwards, the prospective brid...
“As If they Were Shooting Ducks:” An Irish Nova Scotian Gloucester Fisherman at War
Irish in the American Civil War
Many of the Canadians who fought in the American Civil War were of Irish ancestry, often members of families who had first made their homes in British North America before slowly moving down to the United States. In the early 1850s the Cunningham family made the move from Cape Breton in Nova Scotia to Gloucester, Massachusetts. By the outbreak of the American Civil the family had members born in Ireland, Nova Scotia and the United States. At least one of the C...
The Muster Murder of 1787
During the Boston Muster of 1787, Daniel Foster of Rowleyparticipatedin the customary celebration of shooting musket ballsinto the air, andaccidentally shot Amos Chapman of Ipswich in the leg. …
Source: The Muster Murder of 1787
April 26, 2016
Primrose Hill Earthwork, Gisburn, Lancashire
Primrose Hill Earthwork, near Gisburn, Lancashire
OS grid reference: SD 8476 4725. Near Coal Pit Lane –about 1mile to the south-east of Gisburn, Lancashire,there is a small,square-shaped earthwork that sitsupon the north-side of Primrose Hill. But unfor-tunatelyhardly anything is known about this solitary earthwork apart from the probability that itdates from theRomanperiod.This earth-workis located beside a footpath close to Hesketh Farm. There are other Roman...
Allegory in Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’
The last day of the Easter Quote Week!
On the 25th of April 1719, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe was first published. The original title, extremely long and detailed, led many people to believe that the book was based on a true story and authored by Robinson Crusoe himself. The title read as follows:The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near th...
April 25, 2016
24 April 1941: Infantrymen Killed Manning Heavy Guns
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BUFFS TROOPS KILLED ON EMERGENCY ACK ACK DUTY
Four members of 4th Battalion The Buffs were among five servicemen reported killed tonight while they were helping to man an anti-aircraft gun normally handled by the Royal Artillery. Another member of the Battalion was badly injured.
HMS Gloucester suffered near-miss
The Buffs were assigned...
The French Lesson: Henrietta Lightfoot’s exploits in Revolutionary France
“I have often wished to enquire, my dear Mrs Lightfoot, how it was you came to make the acquaintance of Grace Dalrymple Elliot.”
We’ve been lucky enough to receive a preview copy of the respected author and historian Hallie Rubenhold’s new novel, The French Lesson which is launched in the UK on 21st April 2016. It’s a book we’ve been waiting with baited breath to read as it has our leading lady Grace Dalrymple Elliott as one of the main characters.
As Hallie’s work is fic...
Regency Personalities Series-George Bingham 3rd Earl of Lucan
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Field Marshall George Charles Bingham 3rd Earl of Lucan
16 April 1800 – 10 November 1888
George Bingham
Field Marshall George Charles Bingham 3rd Earl of Lucan was the first son of Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan, an Anglo-Irish peer, and Elizabeth Bingham (née Belasyse), Lord Bingham (as he was styled up until late...
After three years of war, Texas cavalryman wasn’t ready to quit
Tens of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers went AWOL or deserted during the War Between the States. Some found combat wasn’t as glamorous as they had imagined, otherswearied of being away from family, whilemany simply tired of seemingly endless monotony punctuated by the short bursts of terror common to combat.
Henry Martin Lary, a Confederate cavalryman from Texas, apparently did not waver in his conviction, despite the dangers and drudgery of war.
Lary...
Stage 32 – Awesome networking resource!
Definitely worth checking out! (If you join, please feel free to connect with me)
Stage 32 is the world’s largest social network and educational site for film, television and theater creatives. Launched in September of 2011, the community is now filled with over a quarter million members from every country on the planet. Simply put, Stage 32 is the online community uniquely populated by the most creative people on Earth.
