A Tragedy in 1914 — Ludlow, Colorado

Plaster bust by Paul Manship, photo by moi The dour looking fellow above is John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of Standard Oil. His son was a philanthropist, BUT he kept one of his father’s businesses, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. When the workers, fed up with the terrible conditions and lousy pay, went on…

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The Camera Hanging on the Wall

I had finished the revisions for The Burning Bride, the second book in my Delafield & Malloy Investigation series. Or at least I thought I had. Right before I went to sleep that night, I remembered that my main character (Louisa) takes a Vest Pocket Kodak (VPK) with her on a trip, but when catastrophe…

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