by Heather Hambel Curley | May 27, 2013 | history, Writing
Happy Memorial Day, friends! I wrote this piece some time ago for a blog tour, but I think it’s kind of appropriate for today. And, if you want more of my normal sarcasm twinged hilarity, check out last year’s post on how Army Guys get me hot by clicking...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Apr 29, 2013 | Civil War, history
I have a friend who is going on a mission trip to South America soon and has been “cautioned” by the CDC (side note: if the CDC is “cautioning” anything, is that really a “caution” anymore? Or more like a, “Hey, the milk in...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Apr 9, 2013 | history
After I graduated college and The Hubs came home from deployment, we volunteered with the living history department at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. We did living history, we did archaeology. We ate delicious barbecue at Red...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 28, 2013 | history, Writing
That title immediately makes me think, “Get off my lawn, hippie!” As an impressionable fifteen-year-old, I wanted to be a hippie. The fashion of the 1960s had come back around, as it is so oft to do, and I was going through an obession with The Monkees,...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Jan 4, 2013 | Food, history, Writing
In my continuing effort to be historically accurate, I did some research on desserts popular in the 1860s. You know, for basically one sentence in my novel. I stumbled upon a cookbook from 1861, The Book of Household Management. “Well, perfect!” I said....
by Heather Hambel Curley | Dec 28, 2012 | history, Mom-hood, Randomness, Writing
And what I mean by surprisingly, is totally not surprisingly. As 2012 draws to a close and we stand on the precipice of 2013, an awkward sounding year, I’ve been thinking about goals for next year. I’m a list making kind of gal. I find the act of crossing...
