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The Maryland connection
As the title says, Condemned for Love is a Virginia story. But after preparing for last night’s talk in Hagerstown, I realized how much it is also a Maryland story. I revised my deck of PowerPoint slides before appearing at the Washington County Free Library. I was part of its McCauley Lecture Program, and I
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Recipe for this book: Gather, write, bleed
I think of my new book as unique since it is the only writing project for which I spilled blood. It happened in western Maryland on a cold Sunday in December 2019. I was on a scouting trip for what would become Condemned for Love in Old Virginia, my new book. I had visited the
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New book on the way
It’s been nearly five years since I first heard from Kirk Goolsby, a resident of Warrenton, Va. Kirk invited me to meet him at the Warrenton Cemetery to see what he believed was the tree from which Arthur Jordan was lynched. I accepted Kirk’s invitation, and now I trace a direct line from that visit
Author & Lecturer
Jim Hall 