I'm writing several children's books that I realize can be connected to Plymouth's 250th celebrations. Maybe this will be the incentive I need to get them finished...this along with the possibility of school programs.
Sarah Jane's Daring Deed already is a published story in my children's anthology and has appeared in four children's magazines. Now I'm converting it into a picture book that also could be used as a coloring book.
The other, Journey to a New Home (or perhaps simply Losing Lucy), involves traveling to a new home in the wilderness. The main setting includes a stagecoach inn where I once lived in Plymouth. (Of course, I didn't live there in stagecoach times!) But I imagine a family who stayed overnight.
I'd tucked the draft for that one away and have only just found it...in time to work on the story for the 250th celebration.
Babe Ruth Comes to Town also is in draft form, but I've rewritten it several times and now am starting on the illustrations. Babe Ruth and other Red Sox players came to the D & M factory to get their baseball gloves in the earlier days of the 20th century. After hearing a friend tell about being a boy in those days and seeing Babe Ruth, I thought the incident could make a story.
Another of my children's stories involves the Old Man of the Mountain in Franconia Notch. It's not Plymouth history, but is set in NH.
Now to finish them in book format!
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