In October 2019, Robin Young, from NPR’s Here and Now, interviewed me for my first book, Bases to Bleachers. I received a couple of emails as a result, one from a woman named Nancy Haskett, telling me how she had bought my book after hearing the interview, and including her own personal story. It was about participating in a Civil War re-enactment with her son’s family working in the commissary and serving food.
It was a great story, and I told her that when the book arrived, she should turn to page 259, a terrific story that would remind her of her own. But her name sounded familiar to me, so before I sent the email, I checked my files, and sure enough, she had emailed me several years before.