From Weavers to Princes: A Brief Primer on the Fugger Family of the Germanies
Think of a wealthy, politically influential person or family. Today one might think of billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, the Koch brothers and George Soros, or perhaps business successes like Warren Buffet, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg. In fourteenth...
The Saale Levies
Tuesday, November 15, 1633 Between Kösen and Naumburg Hans Heinrich von Hessler had hurried to Kassel, resigned from the Hessian army (with appropriate regrets), and planned to arrive home less than two weeks after he left. He needed as much time as possible to...
Letters from Inchon
July, 1636, Grantville Arnulf Langenberg found the dusty, crumpled shoebox beneath a pile of rags smelling of mildew and up-time 2-cycle oil. Tucked between dirt-encrusted aluminum badminton stakes and an olive drab duffel bag, the box called to him, as if...
Ein feste Burg, Episode 17
Chapter 26: One Storm Follows Another Freiberg July 1635 "What are they doing up there?" Mayor Jonas Schönlebe stopped dead and lifted his hand to shield his eyes against the sun. There was a man casually walking along the roof ridge of St. Petri church. He...
Capturing the Light
My father, a U.S. Navy pilot, flew F-4’s at the tail end of Vietnam and then retired. He didn’t talk about it much. It was a thing he did, and did well, and when the time came to stop he moved on to other things, like picture-taking and cabinet-making. He...
Bagging the Bag Girl
Spring 1637, Kymi Aappo and Wenzel Borschnitz were having a second beer. Aappo was buying. “Wenzel, you need to get married.” Wenzel looked sour. “I’m not old enough.” “How old is old enough?” “Thirty,...
Grantville Is Crazy
November, 23, 1634 My dear father, You said to write home with my impressions of Grantville, and so I am penning the lines to you before my ideas are all scrambled together by the sheer horror of it all. First, let me say that I arrived safely. For once rumor...
An Uneasy Kind of Peace, Episode Five
PART VI July 1635 Section 1: “. . . und in gottes nahmen mitt aller gewalt auf sie gangen, und alle regiment in die flucht und über hals und kopf auch hierüber gebracht . . .” Lorraine Puylaurens talked. He kissed his lady mistress on the ear, which rarely...
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