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Research Adventure Begins
Yesterday we left home, and we’re spending 2 nights visiting family in Reston, VA. Tomorrow morning we leave for North Carolina for 10 days. We have a few things planned that are purely fun, but most of this trip is dedicated to researching the early life of Horton Howard. Our first stop will be the…
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Horton Howard’s early life
Horton Howard was born in 1770 in North Carolina, and lived there until he was about 30 years old. Never having been to North Carolina, I’ve had difficulty imagining this part of his life and writing about it. In about 1 1/2 weeks, We will be travelling to North Carolina to research the first half of…
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Introduction to Botanical Medicine
1827 – Horton Howard reluctantly accepted agency for Thomson’s New Method of Curing Diseases. Horton and his sons were granted exclusive rights for selling books and the rights to use the methods and formulas for treating the purchaser’s family. This was the beginning of the American Herbalist movement. Practitioners were also called Steam Doctors due…
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It’s the Land, Katie Scarlett!
When Horton was only 16, his father, Bartholomew, died and left over 3500 acres of North Carolina land to his two sons. Descriptions of the land included landmarks and place names: “From a Cypress tree in the Head of the Southern Branch of Mitchells Creek..” and “Clubfoots Creek – east side of the head of the…
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The Serpent’s Tooth
In early December I hit a roadblock in my writing. This week I worked my way through the obstacle and finished developing Horton Howard’s estrangement from his eldest son, Henry. Familiarity with family estrangements – in my own family and in some friends’ families made this a challenging part of the story to write. For…