Teacher and Author
Millions of British troops passed through the French coastal town of Étaples, France, on their way to the Western Front. The training camps housed as many as 100,000 troops at a time. Many thousands of British and Empire wounded returned … Continued
A Few of the Lessons Learned: Write for yourself; revise for your reader Trust your material: don’t pretty it up or gussy it up On craft of writing: every time something gets easier, something else gets harder Nothing is ever … Continued
Shirley Eastham’s imagination had caught fire. “Banners streamed in my blood. Drums beat in my brain. Bugles sounded in my ears,” as she wrote in her memoir twenty years after the fact. She had determined to go to France as … Continued
Before Woody Guthrie strummed out his version of “Hobo’s Lullaby,” he had probably seen–and laughed at–Will Rogers’s lovable tramp, Jubilo, in the movies. As an older teenager, he had likely heard–and was moved by–Rogers’s words on the radio: “The only … Continued