Playlist for A Note Yet Unsung

A Note Yet Unsung—coming January 31, 2017—is filled with classical music from the beloved masters. So if you'd like to "listen as you read," be sure to visit the A Note Yet Unsung book page on January 31, 2017 for links to all the music in the story. 

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A Note Yet Unsung

a Belmont Mansion novel

February 2017

Where's your focus today?

Wise counsel for today, and everyday... Let's keep our eyes on Jesus. "Therefore since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. (Hebrews 12:1,2) 

Photo credit to Delmar Schroeder who really knew how to view the world through the lens of a camera, and who now enjoys a heavenly perspective in our forever home.

Today I'm praying along with my fellow Americans for this country we love. International friends, we covet your prayers for our nation, too. I voted weeks ago, but consider this my gentle reminder to Americans to get out and vote today. And let's remember, no matter the outcome of the election, the next president—just like our current president and every one before him—is under God's sovereignty and nothing can thwart God's plan for this country, and this world. 

Father God, let your will be done. Lord Jesus, give your church strength to glorify your Name. And Holy Spirit, dwell in the body of Christ mightily so that when unbelievers look at us they will see the Savior and Redeemer of all mankind.

Lunching at Belmont Mansion

I had the recent pleasure of meeting a bookclub at Belmont Mansion (the setting of my Belmont Mansion novels) for a delicious luncheon, wonderful sharing time, and then a tour of the mansion. I never tire of being in Adelicia Acklen's beautiful home.

Pay no attention to that woman in the background flashing us. Those Victorians and their naked statues… Sheesh!

A luncheon and tour package featuring Jerry Trescott (Belmont's curator and architectural historian extraordinaire) and moi was auctioned off in a fundraiser for Belmont Mansion, and the very generous Shirley Reynolds (seated third back on the right) won the bid! (Thank you, Shirley! What a pleasure to meet you and the other ladies yesterday.)

These gals were such fun! And I always enjoy providing color commentary to Jerry's marvelous "A Lasting Impression novel" tour he gives readers touring the antebellum mansion.

Here we are on the steps of the dual cantilevered spiral staircase.

I also got my first look at the beautifully reproduced detailed miniature of The Sleeping Children (by artist William Henry Rinehart), one of the statues Adelicia purchased on her grand tour of Europe in 1865—and a statue that's prominently featured in A Lasting Impression (Sutton and Claire's story).

The Sleeping Children in Belmont Mansion's front hall

Adelicia Acklen ordered this piece in Rome on February 27, 1866 and instructed that the names “Laura & Corinne” be carved on the front left, and “Twin Sisters” be carved on the back. This was a type of memorial to two of her ten children. Laura and Corinne Acklen died at the age of two of scarlet fever. Adelicia placed this piece in the Front Hall—in the same location where it is today.

And here's the detailed replica that's now available, and that I brought home with me yesterday!

Isn't it lovely?

Want your own? Contact Belmont Mansion at mansioneducation@belmont.edu and ask them about the replica of The Sleeping Children

I'm currently working with the mansion on a Christmas gift package which will contain this replica of The Sleeping Children, along with autographed copies of A Lasting Impression and A Beauty So Rare, and a choice of a Belmont Mansion coaster.

I'm so grateful for the many ways the folks with Belmont Mansion (and Belle Meade Plantation) partner with me in writing these stories and keeping history alive.

What's the last historical site you've visited? And by chance, did you bring home a souvenir of some sort, too? 

Tammy

A Lasting Impression and A Beauty So Rare available now
A Note Yet Unsung releases February 2017

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