In Progress
Stories I Want To Tell
Three works are in progress: a biography, another “Northwest” adventure, and The Photograph.
The decision to write fiction was made easily. Historical fiction was the genre I understood best. The way I think about storytelling and write non-fiction made the prospect of research into a different era and thinking differently about locations an appealing use of my skill and time. The Photograph reflects that attitude and aspiration. Hopefully, once published, readers will agree it was a good read. The description below provides some elements of the story, albeit cryptically expressed. The illustration involved a process of creation that’s worthy of its own discussion at a later time.
Hourglass
In 1967, Madeline Ferrara Rita, a recent law school graduate and the granddaughter of Southern Italian immigrants, is struggling to make a choice about where and how to practice law.
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To A High Court
To A High Court, The Tumult and Choices that Led to United States of America v. SCRAP
In fall, 1971, five law students, Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) confronted the nation’s Railroads’ power and government’s failure. It was a time of tumult. They sued, and in 1973 the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of SCRAP. A “lesson for holding government accountable could not be more current.” Rosa DeLauro, Member of Congress.
Still in Prelude
Inside the Edge of War
In early January 1936, Westly Giovanni-Blair, a Parson’s educated tailor and owner of a men and women’s fashion shop in New Haven, meets Seattle-born Georgetown law professor Richard Bartlett Burton, in a picturesque trattoria on the wave-dashed coast of Fascist controlled Italy. Each is on a personal quest: Can Westly discern in Wales, then Italy the truth behind the missing 18th century portrait that may reveal her family’s ancestral roots? Will she ever find the artist’s family, her family, as her Italian immigrant grandmother implored? Barr has his own imperatives: Who was it that ordered the assassination of his father near his family home in Seattle? Who is trying to stop his appointment by President Roosevelt to a high government position? And get him dismissed from the Georgetown faculty?
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