The Loyalist Gazette, September 22nd, 1997
"You found it!" I shouted with joy, forgetting that I was in the middle of a graveyard -- Carrying Place Cemetery in Prince Edward County, Ontario. To my great relief, the only living person in sight was my husband. He had just discovered the tombstone of John Bleecker Jr., the first white person born at Carrying Place and described in my novel, Meyers' Creek. I was checking out Bleecker's birthdate as part of my research.
It is not unusual for me to do research in graveyards, since all my novels have taken place in earlier times -- even before the census. However, writers of dramatized his...
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