In New York Nell, The Boy-Girl Detective: or, Old Blakesly’s Money (1880), by Edward L. Wheeler, the title character Nell Niblo swaggers onto the scene in the character of a newsboy selling papers on a street car in Philadelphia. We see her through the eyes of Redmond Blakesly, a bit of a rube who can be excused for his surprise at beholding this cross-dressed urchin at a time when cross-dressing was illegal. He strikes up an acquaintance with her to learn her story. She tells him she’s from New …
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Mid-Ohio Indie Authors Book Fair
I enjoyed meeting all the readers who attended the Mid-Ohio Indie Authors Book Fair this year. …
How did the Manned Spacecraft Center end up in Houston?
The event that launches the plot of Bayou City Burning is a scouting trip to Houston by two men affiliated with NASA and charged with assessing the city as the future site of NASA’s manned space flight command center. They arrive in advance of President Kennedy’s historic speech announcing the moon mission, and well in advance of NASA’s official announcement that it is searching for a site for a new mission control center. Their presence is the result of behind-the-scenes political maneuvering …
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Elvis’s Blog #4
Yo, Earth Dawgs, This is Elvis, coming to y’all live from way, way outta space. Some of y’all have asked what the name of our spacecraft is. Like, do we call it something like the Enterprise or the Millennial Fountain? No, we just call it the ship. It has a symbol to identify it, which now that I think about it looks kind of like a Slinky walking down a really steep mountain. So maybe we should call our ship the Himalayan Slinky. I think it’s funny that you guys name your boats and planes, …
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