Doing the Time, Writing the Crime
My chaotic, depressing, exhilarating second act as a budding mystery writer—the whole wild ride
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Plot Points in the Pool (opens the original)
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"There are Black people in Newport!?" (opens the original)
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On Juneteenth, a new center for Black history opened in Newport, Rhode Island. Located in the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House (c. 1697), the Edward W. Kane & Martha J. Wallace Center for Black History, despite what people might think, is not a slavery museum. Of course, it includes slavery as part of Newport’s history, but primarily to connect Black Newporters to their present-day international brothers and sisters. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://subs
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