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Sallie's posts tagged ‘Virginia’

Digging Up The Bones 2 — The Blue Box

August 5th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in My Family, Writing, Kentucky 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 My Family, Writing, Kentucky Richmond Virginia Mary Clifford Caperton Bingham Warren Buckler George Barry Bingham

Mother Mary — The Blue Box: Three Lives In Letters

July 22nd, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in My Family, Writing 2 Comments

Mary Clifford Caperton

She remains for me a difficult and challenging example of what a woman of character who makes good choices can become.

In My Family, Writing The Blue Box Boston Paris Richmond Virginia Mary Clifford Caperton Bingham

And The Good News Is…

June 15th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Writing, Women 6 Comments

The Blue Box - Sallie Bingham

The first review of my next book, “The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters”, is just in from the prestigious Kirkus Reviews from which many libraries order.

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Coming Soon: The Blue Box, Three Lives in Letters

May 27th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Writing, Kentucky 1 Comment

The Blue Box - Sallie Bingham

The long waits publishing entrails always make me wonder why writers sometimes refer to their new books as their children; surely no pregnancy lasts two years or more, and few professional writers wait to see their next book launched before laboring mightily to begin the next one.

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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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On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

February 11th, 2024
I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, it's not casual. It really is the writing of

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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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Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

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