Hello all, sorry for the long silence. I’ve been busy with many things, including the holidays, and activation as a military Reservist, where I am now once again on active duty, presently in Texas for the next 7 months. Afterwards, I’ll return to “normalcy” in Los Angeles.

Late last year, my trusted colleague J. L. Bell (of the blog Boston 1775) informed me via Twitter of a forthcoming book by nearly the same name as mine: 1775: A Good Year for a Revolution, by successful history author Kevin...