tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post8785124203964826774..comments2024-03-19T18:17:56.821-04:00Comments on Colonial Quills: In Ye Olden Days: Road Trip!Carrie Fancett Pagelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09096954464239963966noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-48644111723395275542011-09-30T12:56:05.901-04:002011-09-30T12:56:05.901-04:00Joan, I've read Follow the River (another grea...Joan, I've read Follow the River (another great journey, and a true one) but not Northwest Passage. It's in Mount TBR. One day...Lori Bentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04714197239425827339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-28908653518826184162011-09-29T20:46:39.303-04:002011-09-29T20:46:39.303-04:00Wonderful post, Lori! I love all the info, and esp...Wonderful post, Lori! I love all the info, and especially the link to The Tavern at the Ferry. I just ordered it. I can't resist new research books, especially one that looks so interesting and helpful.<br /><br />Have you read James Alexander Thom's Follow the River? That's a good traveling story too, and Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage is even better.J. M. Hochstetlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07291602346312967152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-37737042830805597432011-09-28T19:47:16.917-04:002011-09-28T19:47:16.917-04:00Carrie, I could be wrong about Jamie's book. :...Carrie, I could be wrong about Jamie's book. :) It's been quite sometime since I read it. Let's see, I think the book was called The Duchess and the Dragon. Wherever it was that they traveled, it was a trip I wanted to take. :)Lynn Squirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493660128797850584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-29374678891959124882011-09-28T19:39:43.251-04:002011-09-28T19:39:43.251-04:00Thanks Kristen!
Carrie, Sign-Talker still haunts ...Thanks Kristen!<br /><br />Carrie, Sign-Talker still haunts me. Maybe more than any of his books and I've read most of them now. <br /><br />Laura, I'm with you. So many places I wish I could see and travel through the way they looked in the 18th century. Without all that danger though! <br /><br />Lynn, sounds like Christy's journey has touched a lot of people. Her story was my Lori Bentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04714197239425827339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-30433008407015749202011-09-28T14:24:38.738-04:002011-09-28T14:24:38.738-04:00Fun post. That's good to know about the 20 mil...Fun post. That's good to know about the 20 miles a day. Also good to know that the covered bridge replaced the ferry.<br />Love your post. Thanks so much!<br />KristenKristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14683245998938431038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-31463404149760321852011-09-28T14:11:17.097-04:002011-09-28T14:11:17.097-04:00Such an interesting post, Lori. Love the maps, etc...Such an interesting post, Lori. Love the maps, etc. Christy is huge for me and had such an impact on me personally and writing-wise. Julie, the sequel, was good but not quite the same. Right now I'm still preoccupied with the route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh - a good 300 miles. No stage route existed till about 1822. The going was rough even with the road. I would have loved to have Laura Frantzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07067252948999879024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-58610472783775421262011-09-28T12:55:19.621-04:002011-09-28T12:55:19.621-04:00Lori that sounds great. I have several of his boo...Lori that sounds great. I have several of his books but not sure I have that one. I don't think so. Lynn, I thought Jamie's book was inland into the back country rather than down the Great Wagon Road but maybe she has one I missed.Carrie Fancett Pagelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096954464239963966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-19365971218638462502011-09-28T12:39:29.558-04:002011-09-28T12:39:29.558-04:00There was a trip from Philadelphia to Virginia in ...There was a trip from Philadelphia to Virginia in a book by Jamie Carie, I believe. I'd love to do that.<br /><br />And Lori, I've always wanted to see what Christy saw too.Lynn Squirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493660128797850584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-60646669414776252312011-09-28T12:05:41.976-04:002011-09-28T12:05:41.976-04:00There are so many journeys in fiction, especially ...There are so many journeys in fiction, especially in pioneer and frontier fiction set in the 18th century, which I particularly enjoy reading (and writing). But two of my favorite historical fiction journeys are set in different centuries. One of them, set in 1912, is the wintery journey city-girl Christy Huddleston takes in Catherine Marshall's CHRISTY, from the village where the train Lori Bentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04714197239425827339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139112422565969072.post-4589863871608284052011-09-28T11:35:54.373-04:002011-09-28T11:35:54.373-04:00I researched this for my second MS as my character...I researched this for my second MS as my characters travel down that Great Wagon Road. They had nice info on this at the NC Transportation museum (which also has the country's only working roundtable for trains.) There is an excellent book by Parke Rouse who lived in my area and was a journalist. http://www.amazon.com/Great-Wagon-Road-Philadelphia-South/dp/087517065XCarrie Fancett Pagelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096954464239963966noreply@blogger.com