The Siege of Ninety Six
In the book The Loyalists at Kings Mountain, it is written that Michael Isham “evacuated Fort Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John H....
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Feb 27, 2017
A Civil Battle at King’s Mountain
In many ways the American Revolution was as much a civil war as a revolution. Not every colonist took up arms against the British; many...
Feb 20, 2017
Crowd-funding in 1764 London
In the years following the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), tens of thousands of Germans left for the New World to improve their worldly...
Feb 14, 2017
A Trip down the Rhine
Michael Eisan was born Michael Greissen Frein in the Palatine region of Germany (Pfalz) sometime around 1730, exactly where or when we do...
Feb 10, 2017
The Loyalist is coming!
The Loyalist is my great-great-great-great-grandfather who came to be known as Michael Eisan, though he had many names over the course of...
Sep 8, 2013
Getting Ready
Fall is here and for me, even though I’m not a teacher or a student anymore, it feels like a time for new beginnings. With great...
Mar 18, 2013
The Siege of Ninety Six
Ninety Six was the name of a trading post and then a town, fort and Revolutionary battle site in the back country of South Carolina....
Mar 11, 2013
The Battle on King’s Mountain
The Battle of King’s Mountain was a pivotal battle of the American Revolution. All of those who fought were American militiamen with the...
Mar 4, 2013
Michael Eisan’s House
“At the end of the workday, Michael paused before his cabin and examined his workmanship: the hand-planed logs with mortared chinks. It...
Feb 26, 2013
Virgin Land
Once the ox was going smoothly and Michael had a good strong hand on the plough, he thought about how things had changed in the decade...
Jan 9, 2013
The Missing Pieces of his Silence
That’s the working title of my new novel, which used to be called Loyal Unto Death. I am running into all kinds of headaches writing the...
Oct 29, 2012
Do the Dead Want to be Resurrected?
With “All Souls/Saints Day” just a few days away, this is a good question. I am reading a “memoir” of Margaret Drabble and she suggests...
Oct 22, 2012
Serendipity in the South
Looking back on my trip to South Carolina and neighboring states, I have the lingering feeling that I was walking through the pages of my...
Oct 14, 2012
Day Four in South Carolina
I spent the day visiting battle sites of the American REvolution. First, the remains of the fort at Ninety Six. I found that there were...
Oct 12, 2012
Days 2 & 3, the South
Day 2, we played tourists in beautiful Savannah, Georgia. Today we were back on the tail of Michael Eisan in South Carolina. At the...
Oct 11, 2012
Day One of Research in South Carolina
We spent the morning in the Charleston Public Library searching for documentation that would indicate where my ancestor Michael Eisan...
Jun 15, 2012
South Carolina, Here We Come
I just booked my flights for a round the continent trip in September and October. Instead of a vague dream, it’s that much closer to a...
Nov 27, 2011
NaNoWriMo
I have been absent from these pages for a while. Trying to write close to 2000 words a day during the month of November in order to meet...
Oct 4, 2011
Rescued by a King
When I was in England last month I did some research on the fascinating life of my United Empire Loyalist ancestor Michael Eisan, the...
Sep 5, 2011
On Vacation
I’m off to England for three weeks for a much needed vacation. We’re doing a house/car swap with a good friend in Aldeburgh, Suffolk....
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