This portrait of Frank Eugene Converse is one few people outside of his family have ever laid eyes upon before. Frank was born on October 1st, 1846 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Before noon on Tuesday, December 15th, 1863, the seventeen-year-old teller of the First National Bank of Malden became the first murder victim during a bankContinue reading “Frank Converse: two portraits, one poem, an image carved into a gravestone weathered by time and a crime mostly forgotten by history… until now”
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Abel Bodied Speech at Converse Family Reunion
June 25, 2022 The Story of my novel, Abel Bodied Part 1Introduction: Page one of fulfilling my childhood dream of writing a novel began in this very building. I just was not aware of it at the time. When I was a boy, I spent hours and hours in this library. I was a studentContinue reading “Abel Bodied Speech at Converse Family Reunion”
Converse Family Reunion
June 24th-June 26th, 2022 It was a great honor to be invited by the Converse family to be a guest and speaker at their family reunion this past weekend in Malden, Massachusetts. The family initially planned to gather in 2020 to mark the two-hundredth birthday of Elisha Converse, but had to reschedule until this year.Continue reading “Converse Family Reunion”
Perseverance and the anniversary of revealing my novel to the world
For eight years, I toiled away on my book. An English literature major in college, my goal in life was to eventually become a novelist. It took a while but I never gave up my dream. I kept the book-in-progress mostly to myself, afraid of the cliche of being middle-aged with a half-finished manuscript gainingContinue reading “Perseverance and the anniversary of revealing my novel to the world”