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performance of Civil War music, children’s activities and a street fair featuring Civil War art and artifacts, and living history demonstrations. All the events are free and open to the public.
Owen Parry was an unknown writer when his first novel, Faded Coat of Blue, appeared in 1999. But since then, he has ridden a wave of extremely favorable reviews in national and regional papers, propelling sales of his three subsequent novels to the point where he has more than 100,000 books in print. In August, Ralph Peters/Owen Parry was the subject of a glowing profile in the Washington Post, sprinkled with references to his “Dickensian touch with characters” and his “irresistibly readable” mysteries.
For Ralph Peters, the Owen Parry novels are the culmination of a life-long interest in the Civil War which traces back to a small history of the war he wrote at age 12. Mr. Peters is a respected military policy analyst, with books and frequent television commentary to his credit. But when he began writing Civil War fiction, “I didn’t want these books colored by comparison to my earlier books or by my military background,” so he adopted the pen name Owen Parry.
As Owen Parry, he has produced four novels narrated in
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