Originally published August 24, 2023 [Just a quick note before I begin — In order to accommodate the amount of new information that I...

Originally published August 17, 2020 As you may intuit from the title of this week’s blog, I am not yet ready to wrap up my series on...

Originally published Aug. 11, 2020 One doesn’t expect to get breaking news on a story that’s one hundred and seventy years old, but late...

Originally published August 3, 2020 If the Watts Scandal were a musical or a movie, I would want to play Mary Warner. She may not fit our...

Originally published July 27, 2020 I want to start today’s entry with a complaint about standard volumes of nineteenth century theater...

Originally Posted on July 17, 2020 If I had written the story of the Watts Scandal as a melodrama and wished to cast it from the pool of...

Originally posted July 6, 2020 This week I’m going to take a little break from a narrow focus on Anna Cora Mowatt and talk about the one...

Originally posted May 16, 2020 As he lay dying, James Mowatt gave his wife three sealed letters. One contained detailed instructions on...

Originally published May 8, 2020 (Listen to an audio recording of the play "Armand" here.) Inasmuch as Anna Cora Mowatt is known in the...

Originally published May 5, 2020 [This blog is also available in an abridged video format.] May 10, 2020 marked the 171 anniversary of...

Originally published May 4, 2020 I haven’t devoted a blog to the Watts scandal for some time now. It has not left my thoughts, though....

Originally posted April 27, 2020 An ode, as workers of crossword puzzles will know, is a type of poem addressed to a something or...

Originally posted on April 13, 2020 Today, you don’t have to be a celebrity to be obsessed with your image. Right now you are probably...

Originally posted April 6, 2020 I have just finished recording an audiobook of “Mimic Life” for Librivox.org and have been reflecting...

Part I - Gustavus V. Brooke Originally published March 16, 2020 In keeping with the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, I want to come back...

Originally published March 9, 2020 Although he’s been dead for almost one hundred and seventy years now, Walter Watts does not cease to...

Originally posted March 2, 2020 If you were to sit down right now and write a story or screenplay set in Heaven, what sort of place would...

Originally published Feb. 17, 2020 December 22, 1849 marked the beginning of a truly awful fourteen month period filled with tragedy,...

Originally posted Feb. 10, 2020 Last week, I know that I said that I thought Anna Cora Mowatt had used “Harlequin Fairy-land,” a...

Originally published Feb. 3, 2020 While researching for this blog, I found a newspaper advertisement that ran in the Sunday edition of...