Something New From Lyn Cote–Interesting History!
Posted by Lyn on 09 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Chit Chat
Something New from Lyn Cote—
“Interesting History–What You Never Learned in School” Blog
As most of my readers know, I write contemporary romance and romantic suspense but my first love is historical sagas. And with my masters degree in American history, I love doing research but I don’t get to share every interesting fact about the past that I find.
So what I’m intending on doing is to blog three times a week. Sunday or Monday will be the latest book by a friend (or me). And then on Tuesdays and Thursdays I’ll be blogging on “Interesting History–What You Never Learned in School.”
My October release, BLESSED ASSURANCE, is a reissue of my first historical series and features three books in three settings:
v the Great Chicago Fire of 1871,
v the San Francisco Quake of 1906 and
v New Orleans during the birth of Prohibition in 1920.
I unearthed tons and tons of research that of course never appeared in the books. (My characters just wouldn’t stop what they were doing and give history lectures—why not??? )
Each Tuesday and Thursday, I intend to share some of the interesting facts and information I found while doing research about these different settings and their history, starting with Chicago. You can receive find or receive these message in three places:
v Here on the HEA Café under Weekly Topics,
v at www.shoutlife.com/LynCote blog,
v or at www.amazon.com when you enter my name and go to my listing of books, then scroll down to my messages.
Today here at the Happily Ever After Café, I’m debuting this new blog so you are the first to receive this introduction and a hint about what Tuesday’s blog will be about—Ta Da!!!
Intro: The first blogging city is Chicago in 1871—
Have you ever seen an Interstate or railroad map of the US? All the major highways and more particularly all the rail lines radiate from Chicago like a giant wagon wheel with Chicago as the hub. Have you ever wondered why this is so? It’s all due to a simple 19th century invention that we all benefit from still today.
What do you think the invention that made this possible, made Chicago the hub of all trade, all railroads in America? Why did all rail-lines lead to Chicago, just as in ancient times all roads led to Rome?
So see you Tuesday for—
“Interesting History–What You Never Learned in School” Blog #1
My guess is that it was the telegraph.
Will have to check out your historicals. One of my first attempts at a historical romance had its prologue set during the SF earthquake of 1906.
September 9th, 2007 at 4:52 pmI would agree it was the telegraph!
I wrote my thesis about the Welsh and the founding of Quaker Pennsylvania (colonial America was my special subject) I s till haven’t found anyone interested in a book about that!
September 9th, 2007 at 8:50 pmThey slaughtered hogs, etc. in Chicago. It was a central distribution point for agricultural goods received from Mid-West and western farms and sent everywhere in the country.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:27 pmAll Good Comments!
September 11th, 2007 at 12:44 pmDrop by Weekly Topics for the answer!
Lyn