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Volume 11 #15: Adventures in Transportation

Previous Adventures in Transportation: An Examination of Drags, Carts, Wagons and Carriages Available in the 17th centuryWritten by Karen BergstralhThe intention of this piece is to acquaint the 1632 aficionados with the types of wheeled and non-wheeled land transport available for moving heavy and bulky items. Considering that the up-timers will have a variety of […]

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Volume 11 #14: Steam: Taming the Demon

Previous / Next Steam: Taming the DemonWritten by Kevin H. EvansDISCLAIMERThis article is not intended to provide all the information needed to design and build actual boilers. Many skills and cross checks are needed to ensure the safe design and construction of pressure vessels. This article is to promote the understanding of steam technology, and […]

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Volume 11 #13: Transportation Modes

Previous / Next Hither and Yon: Transportation Modes, Costs and Infrastructure in 1632 and afterWritten by Iver P. Cooper“If a man . . . make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.” If Emerson really said that, well, […]

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Volume 11 #12: Butterflies in the Kremlin Part Four

Previous / Next Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part FourWritten by Gorg Huff and Paula GoodlettYaroslavich Dacha, outside of MoscowA Dissertation on the Valueof Freedom and Security“Those that give up their freedom for a little temporary security deserve neither freedom or security and ultimately will lose both.” So goes an up-time quote. This humble writer doesn’t […]

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Volume 11 #11: Stretching Out, Part One: Second Starts

Previous / Next Stretching Out, Part One: Second StartsWritten by Iver P. CooperGrantville, May 2, 1632“Race time ten minutes,” blared the speaker. The murmur of the fairground crowd rose, and then subsided.“I can’t believe you talked me into this,” Maria Vorst said. Maria had come to Grantville with her brother Adolph, the curator of the […]

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Volume 11 #10: Trommler Records

Previous / Next Trommler RecordsWritten by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett“Just sign right there.” The blond man, Contz Beckenbauer, indicated the space for her signature and handed her the pen. “Right there, as I said. Then we’ll talk about what you will sing for the record.”Els hesitated a moment. She was just about to move […]

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Volume 11 #9: Bootstrapping

Previous / NextBootstrappingWritten by Kerryn OffordWinter 1631-32, JenaCatherine Mutschler made her way carefully through the winter mud. She was tired and listless after being kept up most of the night by Maria, her three-year-old daughter. She’d finally managed to settle Maria only by feeding her the last of the bread mixed with thin soup, but […]

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Volume 11 #8: Bathing with Coal

Previous / Next Bathing With CoalWritten by Russ RittgersFall, 1633“Barnabas Kitchner! Wake up! It’s Tuesday morning and you have to buy wood for the bathhouse fire.”The thirty-eight year-old man rolled over in bed and opened one eye. His wife, Margarete Lutsch, was already dressed and standing in the doorway with her hands on her hips.Tuesday. […]

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Volume 11 #7: O For a Muse of Fire

Previous / Next O For a Muse of FireWritten by Jay RobisonO for a muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!—Shakespeare, Henry VAndreas Gryphius, born Greif, waited outside the door to Amber Higham’s office. He knew he hadn’t done anything wrong, knew that that was not why the high school’s drama teacher wanted […]

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Volume 11 #6: The Treasure Hunters

Previous / Next The Treasure HuntersWritten by Karen BergstralhMarch, 2000The librarian stamped the book and handed it across the desk. “This is a grown-up book, Mikey. It came all the way from a library in Richmond and you can only have one renewal on it. It must be back by April sixteenth.”Michael Arthur Tyler grabbed the book […]

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Volume 11 #5: A Gift of Blankets

Previous / NextA Gift of BlanketsWritten by Kerryn Offord and Vincent ColjeeQuarantine House Alpha, Grantville, 1632“How do we feel today?” Katharina Anna Schrey asked Quarantine House Alpha’s most important patient.John Thompson Sims looked up from his sick bed. “Lousy!”Katharina smiled down at the elderly doctor. He’d been her friend and mentor since she started the […]

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Volume 11 #4: Land of Ice and Sun

Previous / NextLand of Ice and SunWritten by Kim MackeyThe match was tied at four games apiece when I looked up and saw the priest talking to Esteban’s navigator, Luke Foxe. He was a strange looking fellow. Oh, he wore the clothing of a priest, but his face was too dark and his cheekbones too […]

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Volume 11 #3: Azrael’s Bargain

Previous / Next Azrael’s BargainWritten by Terry HowardDownload this Podcast Episodehttp://www.grantvillegazette.com/img/pod/bargain.mp3“Hey, Jimmy. Why don’t I ever see you down at the rail yard anymore?” It was a cold winter night and Club 250 had its every-night regulars and as many more folks who weren’t. The young man talking to Jimmy Dick was one of the latter.Jimmy […]

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Volume 11 #2: Lessons in Astronomy

Previous / Next Lessons in AstronomyWritten by Peter Hobson“Your Eminence, I’m fluent in Latin, German and Italian. My French is passable. My Greek is a little weak and I’ve forgotten most of the smattering of Hebrew the seminary inflicted on me.” Father Scheiner knew he shouldn’t be taking that tone with a prince of the […]

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Volume 11 #1: Pilgrimage of Grace

Previous / NextPilgrimage of GraceWritten by Virginia DeMarce“They’re not taking what happened in Suhl last January out on Johnny Lee’s family because they can’t. His dad’s been dead for thirty years. His mother wasn’t from around here to start with and she moved back to Ohio after a while. Mary Fern–that’s his sister, you probably […]

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