Sally Morong Chetwynd:
CLASS OF 1972
Oyster River High SchoolClass of 1972
Durham, NH
Sally Morong's Story
I am originally from South Berwick, ME. I attended ORHS 1968-1972. After one year at UNH, I transferred to College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME (BA in Human Ecology). From land use planning and industrial pipefitting, ultimately into civil engineering, my career has evolved into CAD drafting, which my Civil War map-making interests mirror.
My husband, Phillip Chetwynd, offers a professional living history presentation of President Abraham Lincoln, "from the Cub Scouts to the White House." We met on the battlefield: at reenactments of the American Revolution during the Bicentennial years. His Lincoln portrayal has taken us to many places where we've made lots of friends. His website is Lincoln For The Ages.
Recent activities and accomplishments:
"Bead of Sand" - novel published September 2013, a 1990s story set in an historical museum village
"Private Sam Engineer" - YouTube video about Civil War military engineering
I'm currently working on a novel I began several years ago, another modern-day story. I have also begun research for a story which centers on the fate of a naval cadet on board the USS Constitution during the Civil ...Expand for more
War, when Old Ironsides was a USNA training vessel.
Blog:
Brass Castle Arts - tidbits of 19th Century American history, plus promotion of my own work
Likes:
Music: I like Fife and drum, Bagpipes, Folk music.
Books/Authors: Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, C. S. Lewis, Kenneth Roberts, Ruth Moore, Nevil Shute.
Movies: Ben-Hur, The Wizard of Oz, The Hunt for Red October, Explorers, Dances with Wolves, The Postman.
TV: Firefly, Star Trek (most versions), Alias Smith and Jones, Deadwood.
More interests:
- 19th Century American history, especially Civil War era
- Civil War engineering & map making
- fife-&-drum music - American Revolution & Civil War
- creative writing - fiction and non-fiction - blogging
- graphic arts
- machinery and mechanics
- sewing, knitting
- cooking (and eating!)
- tinkering and puttering, small repairs around the house
- "Jill of many trades, mistress of some".
Favorite quotes:
"If it's important, it's written down somewhere. Therefore, I can clutter my brain with trivia."
"Always eat dessert first: you never know when you're going to die." (from my great-aunt Eva, who died a few months short of 100 years of age)
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