Month: November 2020

• My Birthday Stay in Historic Johnstown, PA

  Masks. The ‘rona. Life. And 2020. Things aren’t exactly normal, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still make things happen in this new decade. This includes changing vacation plans which were supposed to happen back in June of this year. A weekend at the Library of Congress was to kick off a summer of historical […]

  The Pittsburgh Writer

  23 Nov 2020

  Historical Pennsylvania, The Blog

  Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, histfic, historical adventure, historical vacation, history, Incline Plane, Johnstown, Johnstown Flood, Johnstown Flood Plain, Johnstown Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, research, Victorian Era

• A Comparative Review of Two Snow White Retellings

  Fairy tales and I go way back. How far back? Pretty dang far. When I picked up my first fairy tale retelling (PRINCESS OF THE MIDNIGHT BALL by Jessica Day George and THE BEAUTIFUL PRETENDER by Melanie Dickerson), I’d no idea just how much this genre would, well, get me. Not only that, but retellings […]

  The Pittsburgh Writer

  1 Nov 2020

  All About Them Books, The Blog

  Beguiled, book, Book Reviews, books, Classic Fairy Tales, fairy tale retelling, fairy tales, Jody Hedlund, KM Shea, Reviews, Snow White