by Ellen Tanner Marsh | Aug 10, 2018 | Charleston Lifestyle
Did you know that at the dawn of civilization, blue-dyed cloth was crazy rare? Just about the only people who owned it were ancient Egyptians, who crushed the precious gemstone lapis lazuli to make blue dye. But that was before India started growing indigo plants. And...
by Ellen Tanner Marsh | Jun 18, 2018 | Charleston Lifestyle
Notes from a Georgia Farmhouse, or How I Stumbled across my First Historical Romance When I was sixteen, I accompanied my boyfriend (now my husband of forty years) to his family farm in southern Georgia for their yearly reunion. I met more than seventy wonderful...
by Ellen Tanner Marsh | Jun 17, 2018 | Charleston Lifestyle
Most people would be surprised to know how many of the priceless gemstones owned by the British royal family were mined in India, once the crown jewel of the British Empire, or the fact that some of them are supposedly cursed. Take the Black Prince’s Ruby, set in the...
