by DrRoger | Jul 24, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
America’s sweet tooth did not appear with the advent of refined sugar. Antebellum Charleston was known for its sweet treats. “Monkey meat” was one of Charleston’s forgotten old school candies which probably emerged on our city streets in the...
by DrRoger | Jul 21, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
“Secessionist hectoring and outrage would flame, then smolder in the face of Charleston’s unhurried pace and conservative nature. Charleston’s charms provided too many diversions from rebellious indignation. Charleston’s elite balanced their...
by DrRoger | Jul 18, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
The current St Luke’s Chapel on the campus of the Medical University of South Carolina has a fascinating history. Prior to the Civil War, the property at the corner of Ashley Ave and Bee Street was a Federal arsenal. Union soldiers from Ft Sumter were ordered to...
by DrRoger | Jul 15, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
Why is Southern financier and shipping magnate, George Alfred Trenholm, memorialized on the stained glass window adjacent to the altar at St Luke’s Chapel on the grounds of the Medical University of South Carolina? To find out why and learn the history of this...
by DrRoger | Jul 12, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
I grew up just off Trenholm Road in Columbia, SC, and never once thought of where the name came from. George Alfred Trenholm was a financier, banker, cotton broker, shipping magnate, the richest man in the South, and Secretary of the Confederate Treasury when Richmond...
by DrRoger | Jul 9, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
Excited readers looking forward to reading Roger Newman’s “Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War, and Recompense.” Don’t be the last one in your neighborhood to have a copy!!
by DrRoger | Jul 7, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
The History Channel recently spent millions of dollars to find the lost Confederate gold at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Spoiler alert – It wasn’t there! Read Roger Newman’s “Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War, and Recompense” for a...
by DrRoger | Jul 2, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
“Newman’s command of the historical period is magisterial, and this dramatic fictionalization of the time, which includes an explanation for the lost Confederate gold, is clearly the fruit of painstaking research.” Kirkus Review of Books Will...
by DrRoger | Jun 29, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
Nothing more satisfying and exciting than the day the first print of a new book arrives in the mail. It is currently available on Amazon and Kindle! Thank you to my new publisher A-Argus Books and W&B Publishers from Kernersville, NC. Check out their website...
by DrRoger | Jun 27, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
Low-slung, rakish Civil War blockade runners like the “Will O’ the Wisp” captained by Jack Holmes out of Charleston cast only a minimal silhouette on the horizon and blended in against both the sky and the ocean. With a moonless night, an obscuring...
