History – Mountain Brook Ink

[Janalyn Voigt] The Irish in America

Mar 17, 2022Tim Pietz1 CommentAuthor Posts, Historical Sidenotes, Janalyn VoigtAmerican history, historical fiction, History, Irish, loving like Jesus, Potato Famine, western

On St. Patrick’s Day, Americans of Irish descent have something to boast about. A smidgeon of Irish blood is all it takes. How times have changed. Attitudes toward the Irish were quite different in Wild West days.

[Jeanette-Marie Mirich] The Helmet

Feb 3, 2022Tim PietzHistorical Sidenotes, Jeanette-Marie Mirich, The Stories We Live, Uncategorizedfamily, Family Stories, fatherhood, History, WWII

My father thought sideways. It happens. Probably stemmed from the shrapnel imbedded in his head at a hillside in Italy.

[Janalyn Voigt] Tasting History

Apr 30, 2020Janalyn Voigt5 CommentsAuthor Posts, Crafts & Fun, Historical Sidenotes, Janalyn VoigtAmerican history, cheyenne sunrise, hills of nevermore, historical fiction, historical food, History, janalyn voigt, montana gold, stagecoach to liberty, the forever sky, western historical romance

Ever taste history? What if I said that you probably have, and often? Most people don’t recognize when they bite into a sandwich that they are eating an ancient form of food popularized in 1762 by the Earl of Sandwich. A heavy gambler, he asked his cook to bring him a meal to eat without…

[Vickie McDonough] What Was the Oklahoma Land Run?

Nov 7, 2019Alyssa Roat3 CommentsAuthor Posts, Vickie McDonoughAmerican history, History, Oklahoma, Sooner State

I was recently on a Facebook party promoting my Land Rush Dreams series, and I was surprised to learn how many people had never heard of the Oklahoma land runs. So, let me enlighten you, in case you haven’t heard of them either. There were seven land runs in Oklahoma, but by far, the most…

[Linda Thompson] The Three Sentences That Made Me a Writer

Apr 18, 2018Nikki Wright1 CommentHistorical Sidenotes, Linda ThompsonDoolittle Raid, History, Linda Thompson, Pearl Harbor, Plum Blooms in Winter, WWII

“Eventually, the woman confessed—her fiancé had been killed during the war, and she’d first gone to the rally for revenge. She was going to assassinate him. His words, remarkably, had touched her deeply, and… now she was a Christian.” The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid by Craig Nelson (New York: Penguin…