Join us tomorrow for the first Books and Brews event! Michael and I will talk about our radio program, Books and Brews with Laura Vosika, I will be doing some readings from my books, and Michael will talk about being a beer cicerone (Minnesota’s first!) and lead a beer tasting. . Blue Bells of Scotland starts […]
June was another fun program on Books and Brews with Laura Vosika! Today we talked to Scott van Koughnett, owner of Eat My Words Bookstore in northeast Minneapolis–where Michael and I will be appearing next Saturday to talk about writing, do readings from The Blue Bells Chronicles, and host a beer tasting. Yes, FREE BEER! […]
Over nearly twelve years of studying the time of the Scottish Wars of Independence, the story of the attack on the bishops has long been familiar to me. It is mentioned in passing in one of the volumes of The Blue Bells Chronicles. (Westering Home, if I remember correctly.) The short story is that churchmen […]
Welcome to Books and Brews! Over the last five months, I’ve been hosting Books and Brews with Laura Vosika on AM 950 here in the Twin Cities. Each month, I’m joined by co-host Michael Agnew and a local author. To read about more of our programs–and listen to them–CLICK HERE. LISTEN to Books and Brews with […]
We started the story… …of Inchaffray Abbey, and Bruce’s endowment to it in PART ONE, I talked about Bruce’s decision to give an endowment for a chapel to St. Fillan and a brief history of the early, awful months of 1306. In PART TWO, I got into the detail of the Battle of Dalrigh, which, […]