Author: Donna R Causey

Donna R. Causey, resident of Alabama, was a teacher in the public school system for twenty years. When she retired, Donna found time to focus on her lifetime passion for historical writing. She developed the websites www.alabamapioneers and www.daysgoneby.me All her books can be purchased at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. She has authored numerous genealogy books. RIBBON OF LOVE: A Novel Of Colonial America (TAPESTRY OF LOVE) is her first novel in the Tapestry of Love about her family where she uses actual characters, facts, dates and places to create a story about life as it might have happened in colonial Virginia. Faith and Courage: Tapestry of Love (Volume 2) is the second book and the third FreeHearts: A Novel of Colonial America (Book 3 in the Tapestry of Love Series) Discordance: The Cottinghams (Volume 1) is the continuation of the story. . For a complete list of books, visit Donna R Causey
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RECIPE WEDNESDAY: From 1868 – Glazing for tarts & A pretty dessert

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Simpson Manuscript – On Feb. 4, 1861, these delegates met at the Confederate Conference held in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Vice President Aaron Burr hid in Dismals Canyon in Franklin County, Alabama after killing political rival Alexander Hamilton [pictures]

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In 1899, Tuscaloosa no longer dreaded an ice famine when the thermometer was 100 degrees in the shade thanks to Tuscaloosa Ice and Light company

(Photograph and transcription from Tuscaloosa Weekly Times, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 12, 1899) TUSCALOOSA ELECTRIC LIGHT & ICE CO. The Tuscaloosa Gas, Electric Light and…