Finding those cover images!

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for Monday November 4, 2024. After deciding on what your subject for the book will be, coming up with a name is one of the first items you have to decide on. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes not so easy. And in spite of how brilliant a name you have comeContinue reading “Finding those cover images!”

Thorington School – Part Two

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for August 7th 2023 Today, is the National Lighthouse Day, so it is a day to give some thought to these giants of maritime navigation that are still trying to survive. While not technically needed to do the jobs their were first intended to do, their historical significance in teachingContinue reading “Thorington School – Part Two”

Changes to the Weekly Blog

Linda’s First Monday Monthly Moaning’s I will be making a change from here on as far as the weekly, Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s blog. I am finding that with the research time and writing time, I am spending on this latest book, it is making it harder to spend the time needed to gather theContinue reading “Changes to the Weekly Blog”

Mount Vernon, Part Two

Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s Back to Mount Vernon, when Robert Eldredge wrote in ‘Past and Present of Macomb County’ in 1905, that “Mount Vernon, which is situated in section 19 and 30 of Washington Township is a thriving little village community, in which has gathered a number of business houses, two churches and a blacksmithContinue reading “Mount Vernon, Part Two”

Mount Vernon, Washington

Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s Patriotism ran strong among the early pioneering settlers to this area. They named the township and village after our first President (Washington) and a village after his Virginia estate (Mount Vernon). Since there were many of Scottish descent arriving new to the area, the name was easily approved. The ruggedly hillyContinue reading “Mount Vernon, Washington”