Sharyn McCrumb to Visit Greensboro Public Library

“In Wise County, Virginia, in 1935 a young college girl goes on trial for the murder of her father.  It was the crime of the century, all right.  Sent to cover the trial, a group of unprincipled national journalists assassinated the mountain culture in order to sensationalize the story.  The residual prejudice of their stereotyping [...]

Archaeologists to Excavate Remains of Shakespeare’s House

In still another brief follow-up to a previous post on the immortal playright and poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616), here’s a story about an archaeological dig which will begin later this month on the site of Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon home. Archaeologists will be excavating three locations on what were once the grounds of the home, called “New [...]

Did Fulke Greville Author Some of Shakespeare’s Plays?

Anybody with much interest in William Shakespeare (1564-1616) knows that there are doubters (known as anti-Stratfordians) who question the great bard’s authorship of some or all of the works attributed to him. The theories of the anti-Stratfordians, which often attain a Da Vinci Code-like complexity, turn upon the notion that a mere commoner, lacking a university education, could hardly [...]

More Halloween Season Goodies: Bats, Bram Stoker, Telescopes & Poe

Stephanie Meyer and the Twilight series may well be more popular these days, but check this out:  the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker (1874-1912), author of Dracula, the greatest vampire novel of them all, has come out with a sequel to his famous ancestor’s book. Titled Dracula:  The Un-dead, and written by Canadian Dacre Stoker [...]