In the book The Loyalists at Kings Mountain, it is written that Michael Isham “evacuated Fort Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John H....

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...

In the years following the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), tens of thousands of Germans left for the New World to improve their worldly...

Michael Eisan was born Michael Greissen Frein in the Palatine region of Germany (Pfalz) sometime around 1730, exactly where or when we do...

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...

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...

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....

The Battle of King’s Mountain was a pivotal battle of the American Revolution. All of those who fought were American militiamen with the...

“At the end of the workday, Michael paused before his cabin and examined his workmanship: the hand-planed logs with mortared chinks. It...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Day 2, we played tourists in beautiful Savannah, Georgia. Today we were back on the tail of Michael Eisan in South Carolina. At the...

We spent the morning in the Charleston Public Library searching for documentation that would indicate where my ancestor Michael Eisan...

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...

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...

When I was in England last month I did some research on the fascinating life of my United Empire Loyalist ancestor Michael Eisan, the...

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....