For the last seven or eight years I have been writing a book. It is biography/history, mostly limited to a certain period. This grew out of the many brief bios and family histories that fell under my custodianship after my parents died. One thing led to another, and eventually the book project was born.

Last year I presented three papers spun off from my book to three different groups. In 2012 I presented my first paper at a conference in Calgary. Last year I submitted enlarged versions to two different publications, although I didn't expect much. I'm not an academic, nor a historian. So I was pretty happy when both were accepted. It's taken a lot of time away from my book proposal though. I've had to do revisions on both and right now I'm in the process of getting images and illustrations. One will appear in a history journal next year, the other will be a chapter in a book that will be based on the symposium.

This all started when I read a biographical sketch of a great-grandfather. In 1885, my great-grandmother and several of her children, "down to an eight-year old boy" were subpoenaed by a federal court and forced to testify against G-grandpa. I figured out that the boy was my grandfather who died before my parents married.

Aliases, disguises, cyphers, secret codes, hidden rooms, deputy marshal raids, prison sentences. My great-grandfather was the editor of the local church-owned newspaper, he lobbied Congress and the President, hid out in the Supreme Court library when the U. S. Marshal showed up, and returned to his native Great Britain for a spell when things got too hot.

I'm happy to get these articles accepted, they will really boost my nearly empty platform. (One law review student note in 1977.)

I spend a lot of time in front of my computer, and when I need a break, YLF is waiting for me.