March 2, 1916 I finished typing the diary of the man I love and now I wait. I know what he thought every day for eighteen months. Lord Ogilvy wrote a note, placed it inside the journal’s cover with Julia’s opened letter and then mailed all to me. He wrote with his surprisingly poor penmanship, […]

September 8, 1915 “Goot sausage needs no mustard,” Frank Muench bellowed to the crowd in his German smothered Swiss accent. His concession, set up facing the field and near the first base dugout, had a black chalkboard trimmed in blond wood. On the top in carefully drawn bold letters was “New Meat Market.” Below a […]

A Diary by Victims of Love Banished in 1914 to Steamboat Springs, Colorado A novel by Ken Proper   Fly fishing was therapy for a young Brit banished in 1914 to a booming, small, mountain town in western Colorado. Julius Brandon found it as a sort of mental house cleaning. He felt Henry David Thoreau’s […]