Across the Worlds with Aimee and Phineas

A train, stopped on the western plains.  A man rides up, on a horse he'd better relinquish.  A struggle on board the train; a woman of surprising, even superhuman abilities, and an unconscious man.
Who is this woman, named Aimee?  For that matter, who is the man who comes to her rescue, named Phineas?  How is it her train can travel to parallel worlds?  Who are the people who attacked her train?

"Beware of false friends, and false enemies."  A world called "Aryan Trans-Atlantic."  "Sumer is icumen in."

Join a voyage of discovery, of who Aimee and Phineas are, not to mention Ammendina, Colonel Malcontent, and the Vicereine's husband.  Discover where the overwhelming red dawns and the TONE take them.  Discover what lies...across the worlds with Aimee and Phineas.

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Agnes Meyer Driscoll: Marking History

The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll was published by the Center for Cryptologic History in 2015.  It won an award around that same time.  Now, it's made an impact, on 22 July 2017.  A visible impact.

Driscoll spent most of her formative years in Westerville, Ohio, near Columbus; The Neglected Giant gave the address of her childhood home. Some history-minded Ohioans noticed, and decided to do something about it:

I found out about the historical marker when one of the movers and shakers behind it commented on this blog:

I enjoyed your work on Agnes that I did a short (amateurish) video for our local Field Of Heroes we do for Memorial Day in 2016. We were honoring Women in the Military.

That and the work of many others has turned into Agnes being recognized by the Ohio Historical Society and a plaque being erected in front of one of her childhood homes here in Westerville.

If you search my name on YouTube hopefully you can find the video, and there are photos of the ceremony on Facebook at @WestervilleHistory.

Feel free to contact me directly if you would like to know more... thank you for doing this. The impact from your work has been wonderful here.

Driscoll's work in breaking codes, including her contributions against the Japanese JN-25, which helped win the turning-point Battle of Midway, made a mark in history, but that work has largely not received the recognition that it no doubt should have.  I'm not just pleased that Ohio chose to highlight the history made by one of its own, I'm thrilled I helped this happen.

Her grandnephew Capt. Victor Meyer, USN (ret.), pictured, was among those I interviewed in the researching The Neglected Giant.  His pride in his relative was evident then, and visible now.

Aunt Gabby Saves the Universe!

A woman whose great loves in life are talking, taking her nieces on vacations to interesting places, and taking in strays, has unlikely experiences, becoming a hero?  How unlikely is that?  She, her young nieces, and various strays save the family, the space program, the world, the solar system, and, heck, even the universe?  And they all become heroes?  How unlikely is that?

From Yellowstone to the National Hall of Statuary…cascarones…Old McDonald…sitcoms…"xanthic shores"…fending off blockers…bullies…Rosa Parks…ocher…"That was English?"…"'Erry Co'o!"

Join Aunt Gabby and the girls as they use the most unlikely elements to save themselves and all the rest of us too from the wildest, weirdest, and wonkiest troublemakers ever seen on one world!  Or even solar system.  Heck, universe!

"Aunt Gabby, things like this always happen on vacations with you!"
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