History, Real Life, and Faith
I’ve spent time in Wheaton College’s Special Collections library looking through first hand research in the Oswald Chambers collection. As I read through the papers, housed in archival boxes, the archivist asked me what, specifically, I sought. “I don’t know. Just color details.” I found plenty of remarks, tossed aside comments, diary scribblings (though not in Biddy’s Bible–she wrote her notes in…
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A Madeleine L’Engle letter astonished me in 2013 at Wheaton College. I had traveled to Wheaton College’s Special Collections Library to research Oswald Chambers. While I waited for the archivist, I noticed a table full of pamphlets detailing other writers whose manuscripts and letters also were in the collection. Wheaton has quite a selection: Francis and Edith Schaeffer, C. Everett Koop,…
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The awe of holding Oswald Chambers’ actual Bible.
Why set a story in Texas? The enormity of possibilities! Countless writers have written about the state from the sprawling Texas by James Michener to the nine novellas in The Texas Brides Collection. The seven writers in this collection have a variety of links to the state. Kathleen Y’Barbo is an Old Three Hundred descendant. Michelle Ule’s ancestor’s arrival ten years later,…
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Texas brides and romance? You bet! Nine of Barbour’s favorite historical fiction novella writers have collaborated on a romance collection with an emphasis on Texas. As the descendent of Texas pioneers, I’ve written a story to include one of my ancestors. The Hanks family of Texas My great-great-great-grandfather, Reverend Thomas Hanks lived in Tennessee in the early part of the…
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Thomas Jefferson was the president of the United States and Dolley Madison was the queen of Federal City society when my great-great-grandfather was born. I can never quite wrap my brain around how young the United States is when I think about that fact. My children knew their great-grandfather–he was 90 years old when my oldest son was born and…
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