by DianneSalerni | Nov 26, 2010 | Dorians Parlor, Elisha Kane, Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead
I’ve been practicing all week for this weekend’s reading at Dorian’s Parlor. Actually, you could say I started practicing last weekend, when my husband and I learned how to dress me up in my costume. Yes, it took two of us. All those movies you’ve seen where a servant...
by DianneSalerni | Jul 26, 2010 | Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead
I’ve written about Maggie Fox on this blog, and I’ve written about Kate. But I haven’t said much about the third Fox sister – the one variously described by reviewers as controlling, domineering, mercenary, manipulative, and overbearing: Leah Fox Fish Brown Underhill....
by DianneSalerni | Jul 14, 2010 | Fox sisters, Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead, writing
Last week, I received an unexpected message on Facebook from a descendant of the Fox sisters! This lady, who lives in a neighboring county of PA (and whom I hope to meet up with this summer) is a great-great-(great?)-grandniece of Maggie and Kate Fox.This is really...
by DianneSalerni | Jun 9, 2010 | Maggie Fox, We Hear the Dead
On my class field trip today (in between rainstorms, hikes through the swamp, and begging kids to quiet down on the bus), I chatted with some of my parent chaperones about teenage TV stars – past and present. It seemed to us that a lot of popular shows these days,...
by DianneSalerni | May 27, 2010 | Maggie Fox, screenplay, We Hear the Dead
Today’s blogpost stems from two Twitter Chats I attended recently. In last week’s YAlitchat, writers and educators were discussing how teachers influence what teens read. The subject of movies from YA books came up, causing the usual waterfall of tweets exclaiming,...
by DianneSalerni | May 4, 2010 | Elisha Kane, Maggie Fox, Pennsylvania graves, We Hear the Dead
The next entry in my series of intriguing Pennsylvania graves (caged graves, the ticking tomb, multiple graves for Anthony Wayne) is a salute to Dr. Elisha Kane, the romantic hero of my novel, We Hear the Dead.Located in Laurel Hill Cemetery, in the middle of...
