A Fictional Interview with Major George Armistead at Fort McHenry TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland — September 24, 1814 AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a fictional historical interview. Major George Armistead (1780–1818) commanded the roughly 1,000-man garrison that withstood a nearly 25-hour British bombardment of Fort McHenry on September […]
A Fictional Interview with George Read in New Castle, Delaware TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | New Castle, Delaware — August 1776 Author’s Note: The following is a fictional historical interview. George Read (1733–1798) practiced law in New Castle, Delaware, and was the colony’s delegate to the Continental Congress. On July 2, 1776, he was
A Fictional Interview with John Baptist Greco at Holy Land USA TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | Pine Hill, Waterbury, Connecticut — Mid-1960s AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a fictional historical interview. John Baptist Greco (1895–1986) was a Waterbury attorney who had once studied for the priesthood before illness and finances forced him
A Fictional Interview with Frances Splettstocher at the Waterbury Clock Company TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | Waterbury, Connecticut — 1923 AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a fictional historical interview. Frances Splettstocher (c. 1903–1925) began working as a dial painter at the Waterbury Clock Company in 1921 at age seventeen, using the “lip-point”
A Fictional Interview with Hernán Cortés at the Court of Moctezuma TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | Tenochtitlán — November 1519 AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a fictional historical interview. Hernán Cortés (1485–1547) arrived in Tenochtitlán in November 1519 and was received by the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II, where he and his men were
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A Fictional Interview with Abraham Whipple in Providence, Rhode Island TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | Providence, Rhode Island — 1774 AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a fictional historical interview. Captain Abraham Whipple (1733–1819) led the party of Rhode Islanders who boarded and burned the British schooner Gaspee on June 9, 1772, after
A Fictional Interview with Jonathan Trumbull and Benedict Arnold at Fort Trumbull TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | Fort Trumbull State Park, New London, Connecticut — Out of Time AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a fictional historical interview, and this one takes the show’s name more literally than usual. Jonathan Trumbull (1710–1785) was
A Fictional Interview with John Quelch in the Boston Prison TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | Boston, Massachusetts — Late June 1704 AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a fictional historical interview. Captain John Quelch (c. 1665–1704) commanded the brigantine Charles, originally commissioned as a privateer against the French. After the crew locked their
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A Fictional Interview with Anne Morrow Lindbergh at the Hunterdon County Courthouse TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | Flemington, New Jersey — January 1935 AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a fictional historical interview. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) was an author, aviator, and the wife of Charles Lindbergh, whose infant son Charles Jr. was kidnapped
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A Fictional Interview with Werner Franz at Naval Air Station Lakehurst TRAVEL IN TIME WITH DAN | Lakehurst, New Jersey — Evening, May 6, 1937 AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a fictional historical interview. Werner Franz (1922–2014) was the 14-year-old cabin boy aboard the LZ 129 Hindenburg, and would become the last surviving
