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		<title>Heading Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retreat From Gettysburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bravest Girl In Sharpsburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Night Riders of Harpers Ferry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Too Afraid To Cry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antietam campaign]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Special note:  Thank you, thank you!  As I write this, Old World Murder and The Heirloom Murders are ranked in the top 1% of the 8 million books that Amazons tracks, and for the last 3 weeks OWM has been in the top 50 on Amazon&#8217;s Best Selling Mysteries list.  The Kindle download of Old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1594&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On The Street Where You Live</title>
		<link>http://sitesandstories.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/on-the-street-where-you-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madison Wisconsin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stree names]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[History Comes Alive in Madison Street Names It’s easy to think of historic sites in terms of specially-designated places—battlefields, old homes with distinguished architectural details, living history museums.  Recently three Madison, WI, researchers reminded residents that history is everywhere. Burr Angle, Dolores Kester, and Ann Waidelich compiled and published a series of articles called The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1542&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemaling in Vesterheim&#8217;s One-Room Schoolhouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BOOKS BY KATHLEEN ERNST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old World Murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk art painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norwegian american museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosemaling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took my first rosemaling class at Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in the summer of 2010. I thought it would be a one-time thing, done primarily to gain insight into one of the characters in my Chloe Ellefson mysteries&#8212;Chloe&#8217;s mom, who is a Gold Medalist in this style of folk-art painting. To my surprise, I discovered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1554&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A World War II Holiday Prayer</title>
		<link>http://sitesandstories.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/a-world-war-ii-holiday-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United Methodist Church at Absecon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Absecon New Jersey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II song]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent Christmas with my mom this year, and she shared a memory I hadn&#8217;t heard before.  While growing up in Absecon, New Jersey, she sang in the children&#8217;s choir at the Methodist Church.  In 1942, the choir director wrote new lyrics set to the tune of &#8220;White Christmas:&#8221; While round the world the guns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1545&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Grandmothers&#8217; Christmas Cookies</title>
		<link>http://sitesandstories.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/my-grandmothers-christmas-cookies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOODWAYS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Cookies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nut Wafers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holidays and food&#8230;the combination can make almost anyone nostalgic. Do you honor tradition with a favorite recipe or two? I didn&#8217;t know my father&#8217;s mother very well. Grandmother Ernst was Swiss, and reserved. I was too young when she died to have forged a close relationship with her. I have no personal mementos, no treasured [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1511&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Ilona Fridl</title>
		<link>http://sitesandstories.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/meet-ilona-fridl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fridl, Ilona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bronze Skies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golden North]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ilona Fridl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silver Screen Heroes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ilona and I go way back, and I&#8217;m delighted to welcome her to Sites and Stories today! Why Alaska? I want to thank Kathleen for inviting me to guest blog. I&#8217;ve known Kathleen for many years, since we were working out at Old World Wisconsin in Eagle. We both took the author path after we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1495&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Thanks</title>
		<link>http://sitesandstories.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/giving-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BOOKS BY KATHLEEN ERNST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOODWAYS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INTERPRETATION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old World Wisconsin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heirloom Murders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baking Bread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I enjoy good food; even more, I enjoy pausing to celebrate bounty. So this week I thought I&#8217;d re-post some thoughts about the simple pleasure of homemade  bread. Two of German farms that have been restored at Old World Wisconsin, setting for my Chloe Ellefson mysteries, were home to immigrants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1479&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Witness Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WRITING]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Wisdom Monastery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1800s, when public land was being surveyed for Euro/Yankee settlement, surveyors marked the corners of sections and quarter sections. In prairie landscapes, they pounded posts into the corners. In woodlands, surveyors marked blazes on &#8220;witness trees.&#8221; In more recent times, historians have named specific old trees in certain places as witness trees. For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1457&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vessels of Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Ernst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Old World Wisconsin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heirloom Murders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader recently asked if the elderly couple in The Heirloom Murders was based on real people.  I was delighted with the question. She was speaking of Johann and Frieda Frietag, a Swiss-American couple.  Many Swiss immigrants settled in Green County, WI.  Communities like New Glarus and Monroe still celebrate Swiss heritage and culture.  My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1437&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Heirloom Murders, by Kathleen Ernst (Midnight Ink, 2011)</media:title>
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		<title>Joining The Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who live on Washington Island, off the northern tip of Door County, WI, have been known to tell newcomers that they won&#8217;t be true islanders until they stop at Nelsen&#8217;s Hall for a shot of bitters. I&#8217;d somehow missed the iconic tradition during my visits. But when I decided to place a scene at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sitesandstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9392992&amp;post=1404&amp;subd=sitesandstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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