by Rick Boatright | Oct 27, 2016 | Photo Albums
Photos of downtown Mannington from the first 1632 Minicon held in Mannington WV in 2004. The older 3 story building in these photos is now gone in the...
by Rick Boatright | Jan 22, 2016 | 1632 Tech
Recommended Reading Order for the 1632 Series (aka the Ring of Fire series) By Eric Flint, November 1, 2020 Whenever someone asks me “what’s the right order?” for reading the 1632 series, I’m always tempted to respond: “I have no idea. What’s the right order for...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | Maps
Below is a short, well sort of short, description of how I see the situation represented in each of the money maps. In the summer of 1632, the New United States was still an iffy proposition. The farther you got from it, the more iffy it seemed. Still, it was already...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | Maps
Background Very early on, Mike Bartholomy with the contributions of many barflies created a set of topographic maps which inset the Ring of Fire into the Thuringian landscape using USGS and German topographic maps. While Mike’s website is gone, his work...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
Grantville has a public library, and each of the schools (high, middle, and elementary) has its own library. These libraries are modeled on those of Mannington, West Virginia, and if you can prove that one of the Mannington’s libraries had a particular book...
