Marilyn Pemberton tells Historia about the history behind her latest novel: the lives of castrati, the choristers and opera stars with the voices of boys and the lungs of men. As all writers know, inspiration for a novel can come in many guises. The seed for what became my second historical novel, Song of the […]
The County Ain’t Quaint
Janet Kellough on how local history and community inspired a career in performance storytelling. I live in a very peculiar little corner of the world, on an island that dangles from the north shore of Lake Ontario. Officially its name is Prince Edward County, but everybody calls it “The County”. Capital “T”. Capital “C”. As […]