Current Events
I've just finished the first draft of Saved by the Bullet, which is the second volume to my Nebraska Mystery Series. The first installment was Life in a Casket. Now that I've finished the first draft, I'm reading it aloud to one of my critics, Sylvie, to fix some flaws, and having it read by my second critic, Kaliantha, my thirteen-year old granddaughter, to catch all the mistakes the two PhDs missed.
I'm also working on a slim volume that addresses the writing of the New Testament (my Sunday project). This is principally just a for fun project and I doubt it will be published.
I finished reading Hope Leslie and wrote a review for it that can be found, naturally enough, under Reviews. And I finished listening to The House of Seven Gables, which yielded a good crop of 19th century vocabulary.
Currently reading, as far as I can remember Wobble to Death, Tuer Napoleon III, The Code of the Woosters, a western by Johnstone, Ovid's Fasti, and I'm listening to Good Wives.
I'm also translating, for fun, Isaiah from Latin into English.
Photos:
Below are two photos from the Wildwood Historic Center. One (with the lamp and table) features gifts people might have brought to a wedding in the 19th century. The gift at the upper left end of the table comes from Judge Kinney, who plays a cameo in Life in a Casket.
In the second photo, our superb guide shows us how one could heat a curling iron in the bedroom.
I've just finished the first draft of Saved by the Bullet, which is the second volume to my Nebraska Mystery Series. The first installment was Life in a Casket. Now that I've finished the first draft, I'm reading it aloud to one of my critics, Sylvie, to fix some flaws, and having it read by my second critic, Kaliantha, my thirteen-year old granddaughter, to catch all the mistakes the two PhDs missed.
I'm also working on a slim volume that addresses the writing of the New Testament (my Sunday project). This is principally just a for fun project and I doubt it will be published.
I finished reading Hope Leslie and wrote a review for it that can be found, naturally enough, under Reviews. And I finished listening to The House of Seven Gables, which yielded a good crop of 19th century vocabulary.
Currently reading, as far as I can remember Wobble to Death, Tuer Napoleon III, The Code of the Woosters, a western by Johnstone, Ovid's Fasti, and I'm listening to Good Wives.
I'm also translating, for fun, Isaiah from Latin into English.
Photos:
Below are two photos from the Wildwood Historic Center. One (with the lamp and table) features gifts people might have brought to a wedding in the 19th century. The gift at the upper left end of the table comes from Judge Kinney, who plays a cameo in Life in a Casket.
In the second photo, our superb guide shows us how one could heat a curling iron in the bedroom.
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ABOUT PRESTON
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I live on a farm with my wife Sylvie in southeast Nebraska, not far from the Missouri River village of Brownville. I teach history, write, travel, and farm, usually in that order. |
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At the Black Gate, Newcastle, UK, 2018 |
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Sylvie at The Conan Doyle pub in Edinburgh. Legend has it the novelist wrote in this very pub. |
We farm about 450 acres of soybeans and corn and sustain a wildlife population that includes deer, turkey, coyotes, and the occasional bald eagle and bobcat. Our close friend and neighbor who has some 70 plus years of farming experiences is running the combine in this picture.