Indigenous Assist

Good News! A First Nations history authority has agreed to look over a non-fiction non-pretty essay, “Dear Jean PS,” that I’m preparing for a wrap to the fiction “Dear Jean” series here.

Strange but true, some of the Dale family took lots of Industrial Revolution, New Lanark, Scotland, textile $$$$$$$$$$ and bought a town in the new state of Indiana in 1825. Really. DJ PS will have glimpses of truth of USA then, and you bet I’m including pieces of the crimes the Europeans did to indigenous people. FYI, that sweet “golden rule” “do unto others” thing? That concept didn’t work out so well for them. The bullies pushed them to the brink of extinction. Still are.

What a joy that this history authority will give my draft the evil eye, I don’t want to be one more pale face speaking with forked tongue. My wordsmith neph, Garrett Wenger, also my editor for the Dear Jean series, will wade through the non-fiction piece twice, am I a lucky one? Hell to the Yes!  

Plan A is to have DJ PS posted before the next snow flies. If you click the “follow” option below, you’ll get an email of next post when it appears. In the meantime, click around and enjoy. One post, by Grady Trela, is   a review of my manuscript, The Other Woman, Private Secretary to a Daughter of Exxon Oil, it’s worthy. I’m looking for a literary agent, this memoir belongs in mainstream publishing.

LOL, the Dale son-in-law and some Dale grandchildren who bought the new-built town and 20,000 acres from departing religious cult? They, one Welsh and the others Scot/Welsh, new owners of the town they re-named “New Harmony,” were sure that this new USA and “religious freedom” meant free of religion and started an intellectual communal experiment. Socialists before socialism! What could go wrong?