Milton Bagby
Writing Samples
LATEST NEWS:
My new book "Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenbaum House: Birth and Rebirth of an American Classic" has been picked up by Pomegranate Press of California. Pomegranate is the leading publisher of everything dealing with Wright's life and his designs. Wright built a little Usonian house in Florence, Alabama, for Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum in 1940. Sixty years later, the City of Florence saved the house from the wrecking ball. The story, with over fifty photos and illustrations, will be published in late summer, 2006.
I've had the privilege of writing for prestigious magazines and terrific editors.
My aim as a writer, even on the most familiar of topics, is to find the unused angle, the fresh insight.
Here are some samples.
Redemption Song - Kiawah Island Legends Magazine
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Far up the cola colored waters of the Cooper River in Berkeley County,
some thirty air miles north of Charleston, but farther by road, even farther by boat, and in some
ways farther back in time, is Mepkin. |
Highway Up From Darkness - Historic Traveler.com
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I grew up along the fault line. Not a geologic fault line—the social fault line of race, which erupted during the
1950's and '60's across the state of Alabama. Now I've come home, not to the peaceful suburbs of Birmingham where
I spent my childhood, but to see those seismic places where the earth heaved and split a third of a century ago, where
shouts mingled with hymns, and prayers with curses, as a people stood up and asked, "How long?" |
The High Ground - Historic Traveler.com
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There may be no greater comeback story in Civil War annals than that of the Union's beleaguered Army of the Cumberland
and how it escaped from a Rebel siege at Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the fall of 1863. Driven north in defeat from the field
of September's battle at Chickamauga in Georgia, the Union Army retreated to Chattanooga. |
Andrew Jackson's Hermitage - Historic Traveler.com
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The Hermitage, President Andrew Jackson's Tennessee home, is a magnificent, two-story plantation house. Each year more
than a quarter million people visit the imposing Greek Revival structure, making it the most-visited presidential residence in the
country after the White House, Mount Vernon and Monticello. But people seeking insight into Jackson's character should check out
the two log cabins at the back of the property. |
A Meeting at Shiloh - Historic Traveler.com
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In the spring of 1862, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman rode out from Corinth, Mississippi, seeking a small encampment.
He found the handful of tents pitched some distance from the rest of the national army, segregated as if they harbored a pariah. These
were the tents of General Ulysses S. Grant. |