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		<title>Making Jam For Mollie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOODWAYS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pottawatomie Lighthouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Light Keeper's Legacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband Scott and I have served as docents at Pottawatomie Lighthouse, setting for The Light Keeper&#8217;s Legacy (the third Chloe Ellefson Historic Sites Mystery), for five years now. There are lots of stories to tell. I wove some of my favorites into the book&#8212;especially those concerning the Betts family, occupants in the late 1800s. Visitors touring the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=3132&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Danger At The Zoo Giveaway!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cincinnati Zoo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week 15 in my &#8220;25 in 25&#8243; Giveaway!  Up this week is Danger At The Zoo, a Kit Mystery I wrote for American Girl. In 1935, Kit lands a summer job writing a children’s column for her local newspaper. She looks for story ideas at the Cincinnati Zoo, where her friend Stirling works as a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=3109&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Betrayal At Cross Creek Giveaway Winners!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Ruth Nelson-Lau, Jennifer Vogt Bartley, Amanda McKinnis, Dee Bradley Grimsrud, Nita Howell DeJongh, and Danielle Dobson.  Each won a hardcover copy of Betrayal at Cross Creek, one of the History Mysteries I wrote for American Girl.  Entries were chosen at random from all comments here and on my Facebook page. A new giveaway starts tomorrow!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=3105&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Betrayal At Cross Creek</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Betrayal at Cross Creek]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moore's Creek National Battlefield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina Museum of History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Tartans Museum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Caroline Museum of Natural Sciences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY When I was a kid, I read lots of novels set during the American Revolution.  Every one I recall portrayed Patriots as “good” and everyone else as “bad.”  As an American, I’m enormously proud of what our foremothers and forefathers did to establish our country.  But the truth is, many [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=3073&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 05:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clear Creek History Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY When I attended interpreter training at Old World Wisconsin in the spring of 1982, the Curator of Textiles showed us a photograph of a Wisconsin woman wearing trousers beneath a knee-length skirt. The image shows a woman in a farmyard, staring straight at the camera, with a man and child [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=3008&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Highland Fling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 04:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Highland Fling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY   I attended my first Highland Games at Macalester College in St. Paul. I loved visiting the cultural tents. I loved watching the dancing and the heavy athletic events. The highlight, though, came when the massed pipe bands took the field. The music and energy seemed to pulse deep inside me. I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=2982&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Marty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 02:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[INTERPRETATION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old World Wisconsin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old World Wisconsin opened to the public last week, as it has every May since 1976. As always, the new season brings a variety of changes intended to improve visitor experience. But this year also marks an unwanted and profound change. For the first time ever, Marty Perkins isn’t watching spring unfurl at the historic [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=2953&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clues In The Shadows Giveaway!</title>
		<link>http://sitesandstories.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/clues-in-the-shadows-giveaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 04:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;25 in 25&#8243; Giveaway continues! This week I&#8217;m giving away copies of Clues In The Shadows, my one and only mystery  about American Girl Molly McIntire. Clues In The Shadows takes place during World War II. To learn more about this story, see the book&#8217;s page on my website. Three lucky readers will win signed and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=2947&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Night Riders of Harpers Ferry</title>
		<link>http://sitesandstories.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/the-night-riders-of-harpers-ferry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY When I was a kid, I attended a summer camp perched on a cliff above the Potomac River and the Chesapeake &#38; Ohio Canal, and a short hike away from Harpers Ferry. Both the C &#38; O Canal and Harpers Ferry are National Historical Parks. As soon as I was old [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=2900&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Runaway Friend</title>
		<link>http://sitesandstories.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/the-runaway-friend-giveaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Runaway Friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirsten]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY After I started writing for American Girl, I always hoped that my editor would invite me to write a Kirsten book. The story of European immigrants moving to the Upper Midwest is very close to my heart. In the spring of 1982, I moved to Wisconsin to take a job [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9392992&#038;post=2861&#038;subd=sitesandstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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