Thank you for joining me on this adventure. Your time and imagination are precious.
Navigating microfilm is dizzying and gives me headaches. Thank you, Ohio History Connection and Library of Congress for digitizing The Ohio Daily Statesman!
The writer’s group at Wild Goose Creative kept me accountable to my passion. I am glad my parents empowered my reading habits as a child, which often meant I did not do the dishes until bedtime (but I did do them!) Thank you especially to my editor, Cindy Sherwood, for spending hours to correct my inconsistencies, and to Allison Lodico and John Wiley for providing invaluable reader feedback. And to Allison’s 2016-2017 5th Grade class for helping choose the title of this book!
Thank you to my doggies for cuddles when inspiration was lacking. Thank you to my funny husband who related to me by playing his childhood favorite computer game, W.R. Hutsell’s VGA Civil War Strategy. Thank you, hun, for letting me stay up late on work nights so I could write “one more word.”