Fire in the Heart – Liza Ketchum https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog Tue, 03 Mar 2015 03:01:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 76312305 In Fire in the Heart, old letters are good as gold https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/in-fire-in-the-heart-old-letters-are-good-as-gold/ https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/in-fire-in-the-heart-old-letters-are-good-as-gold/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:55:02 +0000 https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/?p=306 The stories this prospector's letters could tell... By Tony Oliver from Denver, CO, USA (Prospector) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The stories this prospector’s letters could tell… By Tony Oliver from Denver, CO, USA (Prospector) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

In Fire in the Heart, 14-year-old Molly O’Connor wants to learn about her deceased mother and her family’s connection to Gold Rush California.

Letters are Molly’s link to the past. Here’s a site that uses correspondence to reveal history in ways never imagined.

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