In The Flow of Time – June 24, 2024 Reading goes on about life in New Orleans in the first half of the 1800s. I run across this, along with other references to the yellows. “Numerous accounts praised the astounding beauty of the “high yellow”-skinned mulatto and quadroon women acting… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – June 20, 2024 Research into history continues. I am now deep into New Orleans, from about 1800-1870. Not sure where it will start and end yet. I’m tentatively calling this Currents because◊ it’s on the Mississippi◊ It is joie-de-vivre, the flow of music and… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – June 16, 2024 I’ve been having a blast researching my idea that Jean-Baptiste Truteau, voyageur, drinks the night away in a tavern with Meriwether Lewis, on March 10, 1804. This is a good story. From the writer’s perspective, it would be a challenge to… Continue reading
