I want to thank Hyla Lipson, Executive Director of the Grants Pass Museum in Grants Pass Oregon for having me at their June “Meet the Author” event June 18, 2017. I had a fantastic time. The presentation went flawlessly, and although the attendance was low (only 12 due to fathers day and it was incredibly hot!), all attendants had wonderful things to say about my presentation and book. I am thrilled that each and every one purchased my book, “Dearest…
What a great group of people who have registered for my class! We have one last meeting to get our White Fleet battleships home to Hampton Roads, Virginia where they will be stripped of their gold filigree and painted the ‘battleship grey’. We were lucky to have a gentleman bring to class and display a stadimeter for all of us to see. This was the instrument the officer of the day used to determine the distance between his ship and…
My book, Dearest Minnie, began when I was ten years old though I didn’t know it at the time. I received a large box containing three albums filled with postcards from around the world from an estate of someone I had never met. I spent hours studying the pictures on the cards. As an adult my fascination grew. I took the postcards out of their disintegrating albums to discover they had been sent to my grandfather’s cousin, Minnie Camp from the USS Virginia during the…
Leslie Compton, an author of non-fiction and memoirs. Travel with a sailor around the world on the USS Virginia with Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet in 1907-1909. This story is told through letters and 200+ postcards. After 6 years of research, Dearest Minnie, will be available in 2017.