Here are some of the places Tillie Smith walked past while living and working in Hackettstown: Centenary (where she worked in 1886), Flock Building (where she window shopped), Post Office (a pivotal place on her last night alive), Union Cemetery…
Possible Spoiler if you haven’t read the book yet A letter from James Titus to then President Mooney at Centenary College, December 1932. What strikes me here is the sentence about regret and errors that Titus mentions in the…
Maryann was interviewed by Joyce Estey on WRNJ Radio, Hackettstown, NJ. Here is the entire interview:
Maryann McFadden, author of THE CEMETERY KEEPER’S WIFE, honors Tillie Smith at Union Cemetery, Hackettstown, NJ, on the anniversary of her death.
This Sunday April 8th, at around 7 pm, I will be filming live from Union Cemetery in Hackettstown at the monument to Tillie Smith. This is the anniversary of her murder on the night of April 8th, 1886. I will…
My Dear Readers, The Cemetery Keeper’s Wife is coming May 2018! This has been my longest and most challenging work to date, but I hope you will feel it’s been worth the wait. It’s an historical novel, one which I believe…