The first time I left home I was just 14 years old and facing my freshman year in high school. That memorable day, I boarded a Greyhound bus at the terminal in my small hometown at the spur of Highway 61 and […]
My Books
In 2015, New Madrid County in Missouri celebrated the centennial of its historic courthouse building. To help commemorate this event, I focused on stories about this distinguished Classical Greek Revival style white sandstone and glazed brick building which dominates downtown New Madrid. […]
This popular history focuses on the hearts and minds of a restless population as it moved west across the Mississippi River in the 1800s. The river port town of New Madrid, Missouri, strategically located just below the junction of the Mississippi and […]
This genealogy book was the brainstorm of my cousin, Tom Brown, now deceased, who inherited a store of genealogy and research from his mother and my first cousin, Mary Margaret Phillips Brown. He invited me to contribute our Phillips line, and Tom’s […]