New for 2022

 New for 2022


After a bit of a break, I am back at work on these stories.

You are at "The Homeplace Saga" home blog/website. All new information will be posted here.

"The Homeplace Saga" legacy blog (archive of posts from 2010 thru 2021) still exists at:

http://thehomeplaceseries.blogspot.com

The Original Novel of the Saga is "Back to the Homeplace." It is set in 1987 and is described fully here:

http://thehomeplaceseries.blogspot.com/p/back-to-homeplace.html

and available at Amazon.com at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1451560400/ 

If you have not read it, it is new to you! I encourage you to get this book, to get into the spirit of this extensive set of stories. You don't have to, to benefit from the rest of the stories, but it will help.   

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In the coming weeks, I will be sharing the various elements of "The Homeplace Saga" set of stories in more detail. Since "Back to the Homeplace" has been read by several hundred people, the basic story will be familiar to many of you, but totally new to others. The three novels in the series cover 1987 and 1996. The two murder mystery novels fit this same time period. 

However, most of the rest of the stories are part of the 'backstories' of the main families. These go back to the original white settlement of the Oak Creek Valley in 1833 and the subsequent creation of the Oak Springs community, it's total destruction in the Civil War, and the rebuilding after the War and growth back up to the present time. These families include the McDonalds, Bevins, Patton, Baldridge, Truesdale, Olson, King, Weston and others. 

The initial set of these stories is included in the short story collection, "American Centennial at the Homeplace: The Founding (1833-1876)" It is available at Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/American-Centennial-Homeplace-Founding-1833-1876/dp/1501085026/

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This site is being created with the fact in mind that most people now access it with their phone. I hope this improves your reading enjoyment.

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Let me close this first post, at this point, and save the rest for next week and the following weeks.

I'll see you then...

"May everyone have a Homeplace, if only in your mind."




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