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Elaine Patterson
 Born
into a large, loving family, Elaine Patterson was privileged to grow up
in a small rural town in Maryland, where neighbors helped neighbors and
resourcefulness was a matter of economic survival. She is the proud
mother of three, a son who is a Major in the U.S. Army, and two
daughters. She also has two grandchildren.
Following
a career as an Executive Administrative Assistant, Elaine established
her own publishing business and also became an independent
representative for two international network marketing companies.
FREE TO STAY
The True Story of Eliza Benson and the family she stood by for three generations.
 "I
had to write Eliza's story. If I hadn't it might have been lost, and
that would never do. 'No-sir-ree Bob, horsefly in the buggy,' as Eliza
would say." Slaveholder Marse Bradford Harrison, a citizen of St.
Michaels, Maryland, gave four-year-old Eliza Ann Benson to his daughter
Braddie in 1841. Eliza would be a friend and a slave to her infant
owner in Harrison's way of thinking. But a friendship began and a
promise was made. Eliza was all good things rolled into one
package...and she was smart, too. She could size up a situation and
straighten it out 'before you could say boo to a goose.' She was warm
when warmth was needed, strong when strength was needed, and brave when
only bravery could lift sorrow above heartbreak."
"That
Eliza was born a slave is beside the point. Small in body and
monumental in character, she was a 'Worthy of Maryland' for three
generations."
... Nan Hayden Agle Author & Granddaughter of Braddie (now 100 years young)
Reviews
"A story of
black and white which moves far beyond color associations to humane
treatment and human lives well-lived, both in times of plenty and in
poverty. Definitely not a politically correct story in terms of today's
standards, this story intones family, uprightness, steadfastness and
virtue. It extols harmony and togetherness in a family which had little
else in post-war Maryland."
... G. Ray Thompson, PhD.
Chairperson History Department
Salisbury University
Co-Founder, Edward H. Nabb Research Center
for Delmarva History & Culture
"Agle has embroidered authentic dialect and assumptive dialogue to produce a very readable and touching story."
... John Goodspeed
Book Critic Star Democrat
"It is a
beautiful story that we feel is especially needful in these days of
racial tension. We would encourage everyone to read, enjoy, and promote
this timely book."
... Carol Connell
Book Buyer
"I found
your book charming and sensitive. It's wonderful to see how love
conquered the racial barrier. I felt you let us really know Eliza. What
a beautiful spirit, compassion, loyalty, honesty and devotion she had.
I'm thankful for your efforts to write this wonderful book and letting
us meet your family through your words. It's a delightful story."
... Mary Ellen Petersen
Florida
(A Reader)
25 priceless
images chronicle Eliza's "valuable" life, including portraits from The
Maryland Historical Society and The Baltimore Museum of Art.
Paperback
Copyright 2000
160 Pages
ISBN: 0-9703802-0-8
Price: $19.95
THE PARSON OF THE ISLANDS
by Adam Wallace
 A
biography of the Rev. Joshua Thomas, born in Somerset County, Maryland,
this important historical work chronicles the daily life of one of
God's most dedicated messengers. This important work documents the
beginning of Methodism on the Chesapeake Bay Islands and the Eastern
Shore of Virgina, Maryland and Delaware from the late 1700's to
the1850's.
Includes
details about the occupation of Tangier Island/Harbor by a British
fleet of 12,000 troops during the War of 1812. It also describes the
British bombardment of Baltimore and St. Michaels, Maryland ... when
townspeople outwitted the British.
(Funds
are currently being raised to help restore the Joshua Thomas Meeting
House on Deal Island, Md. A portion of the proceeds from the on-line
sale of this book will be donated to that important cause)
ISBN: 0-9703802-2-4
Hardback
Copyright 2001
412 pages
Illustrated
Price: $29.95
MY BUSINESS IS TO FIGHT THE DEVIL
Recollections of Rev. Adam Wallace, Peninsula Circuit Rider
1847-1865
Edited by Rev. Joseph F. DiPaolo.
 This
well-researched book explores the religious, social and cultural life
of Delmarva before & during the Civil War through descriptions of
slavery and freemen, camp meetings, country weddings, funerals,
tourism, transportation as well as interaction of blacks and whites.
Indexed, footnotes.
Reviews
"The
recollections of circuit rider Adam Wallace are a fascinating window on
religious and social life on the Peninsula in the 19th century. With
painstaking research the editor, Joseph F. DiPaolo, has not only
provided an excellent text, but has also supplied invaluable context
and explanatory detail in the notes. This is a work that secular and
church historians will find very useful."
...Charles Yrigoyen,, Jr.,
General Secretary
General Commission on Archives and History
The United Methodist Church
"Little has
been written about Methodism on the Delmarva Peninsula, save for the
biography of Joshua Thomas, also written by Adam Wallace. In the early
days, the Methodist were not meticulous record keepers and much of the
history has been lost, or so we thought. This magnificient effort of
the Rev. DiPaolo of producing writings of Adam Wallace, annotated for
the modern reader, unveils the Peninsula for the remaining two decades
of the antebellum period. There is much social and potitical history to
be mined for this material which has been heretofore unavailable. My
Business Was To Fight The Devil is a good read for those interested in
religion, family, political and social history of the region."
...Rebecca Miller
Director Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture
Salisbury Univeristy
"To ride the
circuit with Adam Wallace is to remember and celebrate again and again
the wonderful presence of God that enables extraordinary,
life-changing, world-changing ministry through faithful people in every
generation."
...Bishop Peter D. Weaver
The Philadelphia Area
The United Methodist Church
Hardback
359 pages
Illustrated
Price $31.95
FOR MARYLAND'S HONOR
by Lloyd T. Everett
 Reprint
of a rare and very desirable 1922 edition by Christopher Publishing
Co., Boston. New to this reprint: Photograph of lst Maryland Infantry
Regimental Colors ("Bucktail Flag") presented by the Ladies of
Baltimore (Maryland State Archives Special Collection)
Although
For Maryland's Honor is a novel, the scholarly research and attention
to detail is evident throughout the book. Included are details about
Lt. Col. Bradley T. Johnson and his wife, known affectionately by the
soldiers as Mrs. Capt. Bradley, who together were successful in
recruiting and equipping Marylanders into Confederate service under the
Maryland banner. This historical novel is a must read for men and women
who seek to feel what it meant to be a citizen of Maryland during the
Civil War. Starting with the political fervor surrounding Maryland in
October 1860, it carries the reader through the Baltimore riots and
most of the Civil War. In For Maryland's Honor, the woman's perspective
of the "War for Southern Independence" on the home front is eloquently
portrayed by the feisty Miss Marion Palmer who provides both the love
interest and conflict...as her loyalty is to the North.
The
author was the son of a Maryland Confederate veteran and well-known
lecturer and writer on Confederate history. Mr. Everett also co-edited
the re-publication of R.G. Horton's, A Youth's History of the Civil War.
ISBN: 0-9703802-1-6
Hardback
Copyright 2001
229 pages
Illustrated
Price $29.95
Dolly Pauline and Her Grandmother
A STORY FOR CHILDREN
 This
story was originally written by a grandmother, Dorothy Pearl Ward
Hancock, from Stockton, Maryland, who wanted her grandchildren to know
about her own very loving grandmother. Later, it was put into booklet
form together with a photographic section of the people and environs
mentioned in the story. Original watercolor illustrations by Pocomoke
City, MD., artist, William H. Buchanan, further enhance the passages of
a gone-by era. This is a charming story that emphasizes family, hard
work and fortitude. Older readers have warmed to the author’s
descriptive scenes as being much like their own childhood. Others find
it enchanting as an educational tool to young ones whose often hectic
lives barely resemble the life and times of previous generations.
This
could be a favorite bedtime story to the very young as they cuddle in a
rocking chair with a grandparent who is both reading and telling about
his/her own childhood. For grandchildren who live far and wide, one
might send the booklet, read it on cassette and then record his/her own
remembrances. What an enduring gift that would be!
Plus second story in same book...
MY M0ST UNFORGETTABLE PERSON
A LADY OF THE 1900's - A TOTAL WOMAN
Same
author credits this amazing woman as the person who most influenced her
life. This pioneering multiple - business owner led a full life yet
always found time to help others in need. Her belief in women voting
and higher education made her very unique among her family and
community. Great descriptions of daily life in the then bustling
railroad towns of Franklin City/Greenbackville, Va. Photographic
section of Davis, Ward and Hancock families born in the mid-1800’s into
the 1900’s.
Included
in both stories are births, deaths and marriages of the Ward, Davis and
Hancock families. This publication could also serve as an example of
how to begin your own family memoirs!
Paperback
Copyright 1986
40 pages
Illustrated
Price: $9.95
The Second Maryland Infantry
AN ORATION (1909)
by Rev. Randolph McKim
Formerly 1st Lieut. and A.D.C., Third Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia.
 This
historical booklet is a compilation of research from the Enoch Pratt
Library, Baltimore and data in private collections. The Oration was
given at the State House in Annapolis on the occasion of a captured
Maryland Confederate Regimental Battle Flag being returned to it's
homeland by the State of Ohio. This unifying, patriotic speech was
given before an audience comprised of veterans from both the Union Army
and Army of Northern Virginia.
Excerpt:
"Fellow Citizens, the people that is ashamed of its heroic past - the
people that forgets its heroic dead - is already dying at the heart and
we believe it will make for a greater strength and glory of the United
States if the sentiments that animate us today shall be perpetuated
generation after generation."
Included
are copies of General Orders of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston and Maj. Gen.
Ewell; Rosters and casualties of Co. H., 1st Maryland Infantry, CSA and
Co A, 2nd Maryland Infantry, C.S.A.; names and ranks of known
Marylanders who served in units in other States' regiments plus
patriotic poetry.
(A
portion of the proceeds from sale of this booklet will help benefit a
scholarship fund to send a deserving high school student to The Civil
War Institute held annually at Gettysburg College, PA.)
Paperback
Copyright 2000
40 pages
Illustrated
Price: $9.95
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