From the beginning, I knew what elements I wanted on the cover of my debut novel, Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale. It’s not an easy story to characterize. Genre: a fine sci-fi blend, with notes of history, baseball saga, and action thriller. But I had lived with it long enough …
Early in the development of my debut novel, Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale, I knew that I wanted to tell the story in the first person, from Tim’s point of view. I wanted to bring General Washington to the present, and I figured that I could show George’s personality and response to the …
Several years ago, as I was still developing the themes and story arc of Finding George Washington, I had lunch with a friend and told him the plot of my debut novel. He listened to my description of the story, which starts with General Washington disappearing from the winter encampment at Valley Forge on a …
We walk through the gate and approach the main house from the northwest. The first impression, across the broad expanse of the Bowling Green, is of a huge, magnificent, white stone mansion, set on a low hill overlooking the Potomac River. My wife and I are excited to visit Mount Vernon. After years of researching …
I’ve always been drawn to the architecture of Independence Hall, site of so much U. S. history—that familiar old, red-brick-white-trim, Georgian-style façade, complete with iconic bell tower, arched windows, embedded clock, and white steeple. The familiarity is enhanced by the fact that dozens of public buildings mimic the look of Independence Hall. Two of these are …
Here’s a Photo Album from a coast-to-coast research trip I took aboard Amtrak’s California Zephyr from California to Chicago, the Lakeshore Limited from Chicago to New York, and a commuter train from New York to Philadelphia.
Video: Random scenes from the California Zephyr. Nothing much happens in this video, but it will give you a good idea of what it’s like to travel on the Zephyr. Excerpts from Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale • “Besides the two locomotives, the California Zephyr consisted of a baggage car, three coach …
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Excerpt from Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale • “If we examine the literature,” the Berkeley professor continued, “we see many examples of travel forward and backward through time, some of which also involve a change of physical location. In Twain’s Connecticut Yankee, for example, the main character, an engineer from New England, experiences a …
Valley Forge—Washington and his military staff occupied this stone house during the winter encampment. The house had been built for an ironmaster named Isaac Potts, an owner of the iron forge that gave Valley Forge its name. At the time of the Revolution, the house was less than ten years old. Because of long resentment …