Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Touring Rose Carroll's Haunts, a Guest Post by Edith Maxwell

 RHYS BOWEN: Today we have a visit from a writer who needs no introduction at Jungle Reds. Edith Maxwell is one of our most loyal contributors and commenters and we all celebrate every time she has a new book out.  This one is different from her series. It's a collection of short stories featuring her Quaker midwife. So tell us about them, Edith.

EDITH MAXWELL:  Thank you for hosting me today, Rhys, to celebrate the recent release of my collection of midwife Rose Carroll short stories. Almost all the short tales in A Questionable Death and Other Historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries take place in Amesbury in northeastern Massachusetts where I live. All the Quaker Midwife Mystery novels except one are set in Amesbury, too.

 

I'm excited about the publication of this collection and delighted to keep Rose in front of readers' eyes. I’ll give away a copy of the book to a commenter (paper to US residents or ebook to others).

 


I’ve loved being able to walk around town and research the setting for the books and the stories. I thought I’d give the wonderful Reds community a photographic tour of some of the places in the stories that comprise the collection.

 

The first story in the book, “In Pursuit of Justice,” is new for this collection. It begins with apprentice-midwife Rose in 1886 reading a note from John Greenleaf Whittier asking for her help with a matter involving the previous day’s violent death of a fellow Quaker, the father of a baby Rose recently helped deliver. Rose meets in John’s parlor with him and police detective Kevin Donovan, and soon enough she finds herself in her first sleuthing adventure. The Whittier Home Museum is a short walk from my (which is also Rose’s) house and from the Friends Meetinghouse.

 

 Whittier, the rock-star-level Quaker poet, had a custom-made writing chair in his parlor that traveled with him wherever he went.]

 

In “An Ominous Silence,” Rose and her apprentice Annie Beaumont are on a winter train to Montreal. After it becomes mired in deep snow, a woman goes into labor and a man is found murdered.

 

Rose and Annie would have embarked from the train depot, which now houses Crave Bistro, a popular restaurant.]




“The Unfortunate Death of Mrs. Edna Fogg” takes place during the 1888 Presidential election. Voting took place at the new town Armory, now Amesbury City Hall, and the Amesbury Women Suffrage Association demonstrated across the street demanding the right to vote. This story sparked Called to Justice, the third novel in the series.


 

I wrote “Murder in the Summer Kitchen” for an anthology called Murder Among Friends, to benefit the Whittier Birthplace in nearby Haverhill. Like many 19th century homes, the Whittier home featured a kitchen removed from the main abode that was used in the summer to keep fire and heat separate from the living quarters.


“The Mayor and the Midwife” features several characters originally from New Orleans, as well as the pleasure steamboats that plied the wide Merrimack River that runs through Amesbury. The steamboats are no longer, but the river, still partly tidal, runs fast and true. This story was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Short Story, thanks in part to dialect help from the late (and dear, and great) Ramona DeFelice Long.

 

 

Rose’s good friend Postmistress Bertie Winslow narrates “Adam and Eva.” I wish I could show you a picture of the 1888 post office, but it burned down in the Great Fire. This historic post office downtown wasn’t built until 1905 and is now an office building, but it still uses the same old boxes Bertie’s PO would have had.

 

“A Fire in Carriagetown” was what kicked off the whole series of novels. I hadn’t even invented Rose yet, so her mill worker niece Faith Baily tells the story of the Great Fire of 1888 and a misguided person who also tries to burn down the Friends Meetinghouse while Quakers are inside in silent worship.

 

 Amesbury Friends Meetinghouse, built 1855, is to this day essentially the same inside and out, and is where I sit in silent expectant waiting on Sunday mornings.]

 

In “The Case of the Missing Bicycle, we see Bertie’s back garden and the home of an impoverished family Rose is assisting. The family lives in a small, run-down house like this one.


 

The collection’s title story, “A Questionable Death,” was also nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Short Story. Lake Gardner, which was formed by the town damming the rushing Powow River in the eighteen-sixties, is featured several times in this story. I’m so lucky the lake and its swimming beach is only a ten-minute walk from my home.

 


 I took this picture on a blustery day at the end of March. It’s much prettier in the summer when the story takes place!]

 

“The Management of Secrets” takes place ten years later, in January of 1900. Rose still works as a midwife but had retired from sleuthing until police chief Kevin begs her to help with another case involving Quakers. Rose, her husband David Dodge, and their four children live in the home David had built for them the year they married. Rose and her eldest daughter attend Quaker worship on a snowy day.

 

 The house a mile from my house that I chose to be Rose and David’s home]

 

The limited release, signed and numbered hardcover edition includes a chapbook with yet another new story, “Labor’s Peril.” Narrated by both Rose and Faith, it tells parallel stories of labor. One kind of labor ended in childbirth. The other ended in a strike by the Hamilton Mill workers, with an assist by George Edwin McNeill, an Amesbury native called the “Father of the Eight-Hour Work Day.” Both Faith and Rose become involved in solving a murder on the rushing waters of the Powow River falls.

 



This Hamilton Mills building (one of nine) is now home to the Industrial History Center, our wonderful historical museum.]

 

Can you see why I love living in the middle of all this history? As I wander through Amesbury on my walking errands and plotting strolls, these extant buildings and centuries-old natural features spark my imagination and keeps me connected to the past.

 

You are all warmly welcome to join me at the Industrial History Center on May 6 at 5 pm as I launch A Questionable Death at in-person party. I hope to see you there!



Readers: What’s your favorite historical building or landmark? What old haunts do you like to tour?

 

A Questionable Death and Other Historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries is a collection of Edith Maxwell’s previously published short stories featuring nineteenth-century midwife Rose Carroll. Since 2013, they've been published in juried anthologies and magazines, and only the most dedicated of fans would have sought them all out. In this collection, reader can find them all in one place. “Apprentice to Murder,” a new story, serves as a prequel to the other books and the stories and opens the collection. The limited edition hardbound version includes a chapbook with another new story, “Labor’s Peril.”

Buy links:

Crippen &Landru

Amazon

B&N

Edith’s local indy (order from Jabberwocky and ask for a signed copy)

 

Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell writes the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries and Agatha-nominated short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she pens the contemporary Country Store Mysteries, the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries, and the Cece Barton Mysteries. A long-time member of Amesbury Friends Meeting (Quaker), Maxwell lives in Amesbury where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and a proud lifetime member of Sisters in Crime. Find her at EdithMaxwell.com.

97 comments:

  1. Congratulations, Edith, on your new book. It’s fascinating to see the history behind your stories.

    Historical places to tour? Here, in the Pine Barrens, we’re fortunate to have Batsto Village, which began as an iron works in 1766. Some of the village buildings: a church, cottages, nature center, ice house, general store, post office, sawmill, gristmill, iron furnace, glassworks, and blacksmith . . . .

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    1. Thank you, Joan. I'd love to visit that village sometime!

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  2. Congrats on your book release. Love seeing the stories as you see them. Trinity Church in NY.

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  3. I'm sorry those links didn't come through. My local indy bookstore, Jabberwocky Bookshop, will call me to come over and sign an ordered book. https://www.jabberwockybookshop.com/

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    1. I also should have mentioned how great it's been to work with editor Jeffry Marks at Crippen & Landru. Here is the buy link to the publisher: https://crippen-and-landru.myshopify.com/products/a-questionable-death-and-other-quaker-midwife-mysteries

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  4. I loved this tour of your town and all the connections to the stories and novels. How wonderful to be surrounded by so much rich history that is part of the stories. Congratulations on your new collection. Wishing you a fabulous book launch.

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  5. Edith, loved the historical tour of Amesbury. It sounds like all of that history is a short walk for you and that is special.

    I loved to tour historical sites. Our town center, though much modernized, still has original buildings and is recognizable in old photographs. Of course Hartford has many historical buildings including the Mark Twain House and The Old Statehouse. For colonial settings, either Sturbridge Village or Old Mystic Village are each but an hour away. One of my favorite tours ever was of colonial Boston.

    I have one question for you, Edith. I love series and haven't yet read your Rose Carroll books. Would the collection of short stories be a good introduction to that series?

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    1. It would be a great introduction, Judy.

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    2. Also, I've toured the Mark Twain house - fabulous.

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    3. The Mark Twain House is just so beautiful. I saw it and Old Mystic on the same day, when I was in Hartford for a five-week training at the Aetna Insurance school. Great memories of an excursion with my roommate for the course, the only women in a group of 30.

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  6. I have my copy of A Questionable Death and of course I can't wait to finish reading it. I'm looking forward to that first new story and I'll hope to read the 2nd new story at some point too.

    I'm not sure I have a favorite historical building or landmark, it's not really something I've thought about.

    It's well known that I love Edith's writing so it can't be a surprise that I love having all these short stories collected in one place, even if I already have them in those other collections.

    Edith, I wish I was able to be at the event you are doing on May 6th but it won't happen. But I'll look forward to the next time you are down on the Cape since there will be a few things including A Questionable Death that I'll have to get signed.

    And as always, Edith Rocks!

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  7. Congrats on the new book. So glad Rose lives on!

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  8. Congratulations on the new book, Edith! Rose has always been one of my favorite fictional characters. Her time period and the sense of place also makes those Midwife books stand out for me.

    There are so many great historical places here in the northeast that I am not sure I can choose just one. I especially like to go on walking tours of almost any place with historical signifigence.

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    1. Aww, thank you so much, Judi. I'm delighted you love Rose and her world.

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  9. Loved the pictures you included of Amesbury. I've been through but never stopped to enjoy the scenery. Congrats on A Questionable Death. Thank you for this chance at your giveaway. pgenest57 at aol dot com

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    1. Give me a shout next time and I'll meet you in the millyard!

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  10. Edith, what a gift for me all those pictures of Amesbury. You know how I’ve wanted to visit the place for years and how I stil would like to go.

    Your midwife series is my favourite of all your books. I already have A Fire in Carriagetown that introduced me to Rose. I’m very pleased that I’ll have many more stories to read.

    In Quebec, my favourite historical place is Grosse Île Island that is also called quarantine island as everyone wanting to immigrate here had to stop to ensure they didn’t transmit contagious diseases.
    The disinfection hangar, living and healing quarters, cemetery, all the place is so full of history.
    Danielle

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    1. Merci bien, Danielle. Je suis heureuse que t'aime mes histoires (and I did NOT use google translate for that, so I'm sure it's a bit wrong). I would love to show you Amesbury one day!

      All the times I've been to Montreal, I never knew about or visited Grosse Île. Next time.

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    2. Your French is good, you can be proud.
      Grosse Île island is in the middle of St Lawrence River nearer Quebec City than Montreal.

      I’m looking forward to this visit with you Edith.
      Danielle

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  11. EDITH: Congratulations on your short story collection, and the virtual tour of Amesbury. I enjoyed reading the Quaker Midwife mysteries and am eager to read these stories.

    I am travelling to Montreal for a foodie getaway this weekend. I like going to Vieux-Port (Old Port) area. Walking the cobblestoned streets and seeing the many historical buildings makes me happy.

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    1. Thank you so much, Grace. Have a lovely and delicious time in the Vieux-Port.

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  12. Edith -- Congratulations on this short-story collection! The tour via your photos is fascinating; what a beautiful place you live. I cannot quite wrap my head around being able to plot a historical story by walking around my hometown; wow. We have a terrible habit here on the Prairies of tearing down old buildings...I'll say no more on that.

    As for a favourite historical building, I'll say Pier Twenty-One in Halifax, where early immigrants to Canada landed by ship. Today, it's a museum that recreates the experience with interactive displays.

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    1. Amanda, I loved visiting Pier Twenty-One as you could guess by reading my comment.
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    2. Thank you, Amanda. I've never been to Halifax and must fix that soon. One of my grandmothers was born in Nova Scotia.

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    3. Danielle: I must research about those early days of immigration to learn why/how some landed on Grosse Isle and some at Pier Twenty-One...

      Edith: I didn't know that, but now that I do, I'm tempted to claim you as part Canadian!

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    4. My sister is a Canadian citizen and lives in Ottawa! I have made many trips to your lovely country.

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    5. I think Grosse Ile was the earlier of the two, and included many of the immigrants of the Great Migration. It also was a quarantine station because so many of the people were not only malnourished but also had typhus.. A lot of the French citizens of Quebec have Irish surnames because the children were adopted and brought up french by local French families, but the children insisted that they kept their familial name. Pier 21 was more a seaside immigration point after the steamships were the means of travel beginning in the early 1900's. It too was a quarantine station - there were a lot of eye infections which would send you back. Most of the WW2 immigrants came through here. There is a tragic sinking of a ship just outside Grosse Ile where I think all died - within sight of the island.
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  13. Thanks for the walking tour of imagination, Edith. It's fun to have a visual to connect with the stories. I'm especially intrigued with John Greenleaf Whittier's amazing writing desk--and that he took it with him everywhere he went. Thank goodness for laptops and kitchen counters, eh? I'd love to visit Amesbury someday in person!

    I just returned from a quick trip to the DC area, and was sad not to have time to explore more historical spots nearby. So many, from Maryland to rural Virginia, to nearby Pennsylvania and Delaware, and of course the Capitol itself.

    Looking forward to spending more (bonus!) time with Rose and her friends and family. What a great way to extend her story, Edith.

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    1. The Whittier Home Museum is alas not very well protected - you can go right into his study and touch his writing desk and his recliner next to the coal stove.

      SO much history in the DC area - my history geek and his wife did a lot of field trips before they moved (back, in his case) to Massachusetts. I guess you aren't making a return trip to Malice?

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    2. Argh, my replies are vanishing! Whittier's home museum is alas not well protected - one can touch his writing desk and his recliner next to the coal stove in his study and walk directly on his rugs.

      I'm thinking you aren't going straight back to DC for Malice, then? My history geek son and his wife loved taking history field trips before they moved to MA.

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    3. Both comments showed up, Edith.

      No, we have had plans for the Malice weekend for several months, I'm afraid.

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  14. Happy Bookday Edith. And many more!

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  15. Congratulations, Edith, on the new book, you are an inspiration. I loved the photo tour too. Joyce.

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  16. Congratulations on your new book, Edith. I can't wait to read these stories, as I adore historical fiction. The walking tour of Amesbury was fascinating. I grew up in a small Connecticut town that was sharply divided in a civil war during the American Revolution, and I am trying to plot a historical novel set there. But there is virtually nothing left of the Revolutionary past. Marshes have been drained and filled, rocky hills blasted and flattened. Recent development has destroyed even the 1950s buildings that I grew up with. What riches for you in Amesbury! I look forward to meeting Rose.

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    1. Oh, that's hard. I am indeed lucky to live in a place with so much history still standing.

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  17. Congratulations Edith. I would love to read your books, but for some reason you are not in any of the libraries that I have access to. I read your ‘Til Dirt Do Us Part a few years ago and wished there was more!
    As for places to see, we live just outside Fortress Louisbourg (1756) https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/louisbourg in Cape Breton. After you visit Pier 21 in Halifax take another few days and come and visit it. Our door is always open (literally), and the lobster can be hot!

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  18. For Margo: I would love to visit! All my books are available as ebooks, if that helps.

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  19. Blogger is eating my replies and some of my comments, repeatedly. I'm not ignoring you, dear backbloggers!

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  20. Congratulations on your new release and welcome to JRW, Edith!

    Love Rose Carroll and your comments. I think I have all of the Quaker midwife books except this new collection of short stories. Would love to go on a walking tour when that darn pandemic is over and it is possible for me to fly across country. I can endure a a short flight wearing my mask.

    There are several old buildings like Spanish Missions in California. I visited a Spanish Mission in the Wine Country.

    Love the photos of buildings in Amesbury, MA.

    Diana

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    1. Thank you, Diana. I grew up next to the San Gabriel mission and the (one-sided) history was a big part of a California child's education.

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  21. Congratulations, Edith. It is so cool that you have all that history so close by to draw from when writing about Rose! Thanks for sharing the pictures.

    One spot that came to mind for me is Champoeg State Park, a few miles south of Portland on the banks of the Willamette. It's beautiful there and from their website: "This is the site of the famous 1843 vote to form the first government in the Northwest." Of course that doesn't count the native peoples who were here from time immemorial feasting on the riches that the rain forest provided.

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  22. I'm so sad my replies to all these lovely comments are disappearing. I'll try again later.

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  23. So much fun to see the places you describe so well, to walk with Rose in her much-loved places.
    I spent two cold January days in Colonial Williamsburg, a lovely experience. Here in St. Louis, Faust Park has rebuilt Thornhill, the governor's home and a small village with gardens. It's popular for school groups (including making vegetable soup over the fire) and I've told stories there at Halloween.

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    1. I'd love to hear you tell stories in person, Mary!

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  24. Love your pictures, Edith. Favorite historic places include the Spanish missions in San Antonio, the French Quarter in New Orleans, and downtown Lexington, Virginia.

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  25. What a wonderful collection! The stories look so inviting. I live outside Wash DC where there are a lot of historical buildings and monuments, but I have an inordinate fondness for a statue of Albert Einstein that sits partly hidden not too far from the Lincoln Memorial. It's a large, bronze statue, and children (my own included, long ago!) love to climb and sit on the great scientist's lap.

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    1. Thank you, Meg. I'll have to check out Einstein next time I go touristing to DC.

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  26. Congratulations on this captivating collection. When I lived in Montreal I was surrounded by history. This charming and amazing city was filled with beauty and many landmarks which I enjoyed seeing daily. I took advantage of everyday no matter the weather as this setting was meaningful and special. I particularly enjoyed walking around Bonsecour Market.

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    1. Glad you took advantage of the sights and beauty.

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    2. Glad you took advantage of the beauty, Petite!

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  27. When I went on a road trip several years ago I was enchanted with the town of Leadville, Colo. An authentic Western town with buildings dating back to when it was founded. This visit was unforgettable and so enjoyable. The synagogue has been preserved from many years ago and is now a museum.

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    1. Ann Parker has a fabulous Silver Rush mystery series set first in Leadville and then in San Francisco! They start about ten years earlier than my Quaker Midwife series.

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  28. Congratulations, Edith! How lucky you are to live in a place where so many historic buildings have been preserved and can serve as inspiration!
    I just love books that have a lot of descriptions of the setting and a strong sense of the period in which they are set.

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  29. Congratulations! I'm looking forward to spending time with Rose again. I have missed her.

    Thank you for the Amesbury tour. What a fabulous place to live. I love how you bring history to life in your books.

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  30. Congratulations on the collection Edith. My favorite old place is watch towers in Los Angeles. It’s magical.

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  31. Make that Watts Towers -sheesh

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    1. I've never seen that, Hallie! Next time, although I rarely go back to LA these days.

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  32. I love Edith Wharton's The Mount, in Lenox. Full of wonderful ghosts. And inspiration.

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    1. I have still never been there, Hank. It's on my list!

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  33. Congratulations on your new collection! Thank you for the photos. The area around the Powow River falls may not be lush with greenery but the white water from the spring run off looks exciting and dangerous.

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    1. It is very exciting and dangerous, and it also powered Mills for a couple of centuries.

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  34. Thanks for the tour of the real places. Congrats on the collection!

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  35. I went to college at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA I attended Quaker meeting there. One of the regular attendees was Euell Gibbons. Sunday meetings were an informative time.

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  36. Congratulations on the release of A QUESTIONABLE DEATH, Edith! I love all the photos of historical places that still bear witness to the past today. You remind me of one of the reasons I love living in New England (in my own 200 year old farmhouse!)

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    1. Thank you, Julia! Our house (which is the house Rose lives in) is 140 years old, and in Ipswich our house was built in 1718. Treasures.

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  37. Edith, congratulations on the new short story collection, and you already know that I thoroughly enjoyed it from my review. Each one of the stories gives readers a full, satisfying, and complete story to engage in. I'm rather in awe of how much you can do in a short amount of time in a short story. But, it's a talent for sure. Thanks for the pictures of Amesbury. I love historical towns.

    One place where I feel the presence of history surround me is on a battlefield. Gettysburg, Bull Run/Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Perryville (in Kentucky) are all Civil War battlefields I've stood on and closed my eyes feeling the lives lost. The Battle of Blue Licks site in Kentucky is contained within the Blue Licks State Park, close to where I grew up. It's considered the last battle of the American Revolution. The battle actually occurred ten months after Cornwallis surrendered and was won by the Loyalists (around 50 Loyalists and 300 Native Americans) versus 182 Kentucky militiamen). Growing up I visited the park, and I remember that from a teenager I'd look at the names on the monument and wonder about the men who lost their lives that day.

    Visiting historical places around D.C. was a favorite part of my husband being at the Pentagon for two years. I especially liked the lesser known or visited places, like the Mary Surratt house/tavern in Clinton, Maryland. Mary was one of four people hanged for conspiracy in the assassination of President Lincoln, and she was the first woman executed in the United States. While Mary lived in D.C. at the boarding house she owned during the time of the assassination, she had arranged for guns to be available at the Clinton tavern for John Wilkes Booth when he stopped there after he killed the President. The tavern was his first stop after his dastardly deed, and the guns were there waiting for him. I got to see the hiding place where the guns were kept, and it was chilling to think of that very place having been there all that time ago and being a moment in history.

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    1. That is chilling, Kathy. I was delighted you loved my collection - what a great review you wrote. Thank you!

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  38. Edith, I am already a fan of yours through your alter ego, Maddie Day’s Country Store Mysteries. Congratulations on your new release which I look forward to reading!

    Having been a history major in college, I love visiting all kinds of places (Civil War battlefields, DC monuments and memorials, California missions) and don’t have a single favorite. But I do have a question for you Edith: how did you get from your youth in the Los Angeles area to Massachusetts? —Pat S.

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    1. Thank you, Pat. I just drifted east, with five years in southern Indiana earning a now-dusty doctorate in linguistics, and then I landed a post-doctoral fellowship at MIT in 1982. I just never left the Commonwealth to live elsewhere permanently.

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  39. Fascinating, Edith. I do think my fave part is the research. Congrats on your short story collection!

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  40. I love all of your books and read a few of the short stories. I would like to read the rest. When I traveled, seeing historic places was a big part of the attraction for me. My senior club may tour the John Harris Mansion this summer. I've seen the Alamo, various presidents' houses but not the house of our city's founder. I don't have a favorite. All were very interesting.

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    1. Thank you so much, Sally. Where is that mansion?

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  41. Congratulations on your book of short stories. Thanks for the chance to win it!

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  42. Wow, Edith, what a fun photographic tour! I love seeing the places where stories are set.

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  43. I've never been to Amesbury, Edith, and I'd love to be at your book launch in May, if only I weren't going to be in Bern. As for favorite historical buildings, I live a ten-minute walk from a medieval city, so I have a surplus of choices! But I do have a favorite--the Münster, a magnificent Gothic church built in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

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    1. How great you live amid history, Kim. We'll miss you next month!

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