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Kicking Against The Pricks

September 4th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in My Family, Writing 2 Comments

Helena Lefroy

My mother wisely warned me many times against “kicking against the pricks,” by which she meant the inevitable barriers we face in life, not the male appendage. She would have been horrified by that association.

In My Family, Writing Helena Lefroy Caperton Sallie Montague Lefroy Mary Clifford Caperton Bingham

My Mother’s Hat — The Blue Box

September 2nd, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in My Family 1 Comment

The Blue Box

I have the historian’s skeptical view of the past and of the vestal virgins who attend it so assiduously. Their reverence seems to depend on a net of lies and denials. But when I touch the soft feathers of my mother’s hat, preserved for seventy years, I understand a little of what the other women in the family feel.

In My Family The Blue Box World War Two

Twin These Houses — The Blue Box

August 7th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in My Family, Writing, Kentucky 2 Comments

Carrigglas Manor House

Both houses, uninhabitable due to size in both cases and dereliction in one, will continue as housing for myths, the myths that always throng around fortunes and obscure most of the facts about the fortune-makers lives.

In My Family, Writing, Kentucky Louisville Kentucky Eleanor Miller Carrigglas Manor Tom Lefroy Jane Austen Melcombe Estate Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Franklin Roosevelt

Digging Up The Bones 2 — The Blue Box

August 5th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky, My Family, Writing Leave a Comment

The Blue Box

This morning I found a faded copy of a newspaper photo, certainly from the old Society Page of a Richmond Virginia daily, showing a group of three young people, two men and a woman, marching down Monument Avenue in that city, the broad magisterial artery where the greats of the Confederacy are memorialized in huge marble statues.

In Kentucky, My Family, Writing Richmond Virginia Mary Clifford Caperton Bingham Warren Buckler George Barry Bingham

Digging Up The Bones – The Blue Box

July 31st, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Writing, Kentucky, My Family Leave a Comment

The Blue Box

As I prepare for publication next month, I face the daunting task of listing all the material I’ve used in The Blue Box, many letters, speeches, bills of sale, wills and genealogies that were stored in the blue box itself.

In Writing, Kentucky, My Family The Blue Box Duke University Lady Mary Wortley Montague Sallie Montague Lefroy Richmond Women's Club Sarah Gorham Filson Historical Society

 

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Taken By The Shawnee

Taken By The Shawnee

July 6th, 2025
Sallie Bingham introduces and reads from her latest work, Taken by the Shawnee.
Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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