All posts in February 2023

It’s super fun to see a magazine article about my book, “When He Was Gone,” before its even in print! Lila James, with the North Main magazine, is a history buff, and she’s excited about the impending publication of my historical fiction novel. Elizabeth Garraux, the main character, whose true life story is the basis…

Wineries have recently begun popping up in the Upstate, though most either import bottles of wine from California or elsewhere, or they use grape juice from other locations to make wine.  Only a few of them, including Eagle Mountain Vineyard and Winery, in Travelers Rest, and City Scape Winery, in Pelzer, have planted their own…

As each person as a life story, so does every old building. Elizabeth Garraux, whose true story is told in my historical novel, “When He Was Gone,” probably shopped in this grocery store in the 1880s and ‘90s when it was the Ferguson & Miller Grocery.  Even back then, the stout brick building was fairly…