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  • Under Construction!

    Under Construction!

    If you’re reading this, you need to know this site is going to be a little wonky for the next few days. I’ve been working out concepts for awhile, and I finally have a fabulous new design. So, now I’m in the throes of actually making it all work!

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    What will it be like? Fresh. Curated. Restructured. Easy to Navigate. Multi-faceted (including several new interest subjects). And, as I build it out, it will allow you to make travel plans to see the various sites of my research for yourself.

  • Jean Chevalier’s Diary – An Amazing (and largely unknown) Historical Document!

    Jean Chevalier’s Diary – An Amazing (and largely unknown) Historical Document!

    Have you ever spent a moment thinking about the word “journalist”? Because of modern media, we think of a journalist as someone who reports on news for the public media.  But in mid 1600s, a local Jersey man named Jean Chevalier was a journalist in the most basic sense of the word – he began a diary, capturing events in Jersey during the Period of the English revolution – starting in 1643 and continuing until parliamentary forces finally captured the island in 1651.  What is so remarkable about this journal is the level of penetrating detail it captured about people and events on the island – providing singular and often quite personal insights into day-to-day and historically significant events alike.  I’ve never seen anything like it…

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