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Book Review: Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand
I discovered author Elin Hilderbrand on a beach trip with the book Barefoot, so it was fitting that I completed her final Nantucket-based novel, Swan Song, on the beach as well. I’ve never been to Nantucket, as I mostly visit beaches in the Carolinas and Florida, but you can bet it’s on my bucket list of places to visit, thanks to Elin’s ability to set the reader right in the middle of the island, along with her gorgeous descriptions of food. She’s written 27 novels all set on Nantucket, and her final one did not disappoint, although I may have a love-hate relationship with the ending (don’t worry, no spoilers!) Here’s the synopsis:…
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From Patriarch to the Small Screen: The North Carolina Murder of Leith Von Stein
The 1988 murder of Leith Von Stein that was perpetrated by a young man named Chris Pritchard, who was then a student at North Carolina State University. I found the following background information on the family in an article that ran in the Winston-Salem Journal on January 29, 1990. Chris Pritchard grew up in North Carolina, the son of a woman named Bonnie Bates and Steve Pritchard. His father left the family not long after Chris’s younger sister Angela was born. He and his mother and sister then moved in with his maternal grandparents on their farm in Lexington, North Carolina. Bonnie went back to school to study computers, eventually taking a job…
