Photos from my October 2024 research trip in northwestern New Mexico. The Harvey House in Belen, New Mexico, which was the model for the Montaña Roja Harvey House in The Harvey Girl. The restoration has been beautifully done and they’re still serving Fred Harvey recipes in a little cafe in the back. One of the…
What’s wrong with this picture? A question I asked my editor, but only after I had made a thermal mug on Zazzle with it. Sigh…However, FYI, I will be giving that away to some lucky fan at the Poisoned Pen on February 28, 2026. It is definitely and will forever be unique. The promotional “asset”…
More The Harvey Girl goodies today–bookmarks!!! As with the sticker sheet I told you about last week, there will be bookmarks included in I don’t yet know how many signed first editions. Keep your fingers crossed Head of Zeus printed a ton of them! (So you know, I’m keeping one for myself, as I never…
More photos from my trip to the Harvey House in Belen, New Mexico. This is what you see when you walk in the front door. They made the carpet especially to show visitors what the counter of the lunchroom looked like. The dark gray areas are the counter and the stools. (The dining room was…
Okay, so this is fun– The lovely and talented Emily Briggs of HoZ Marketing has created a sticker sheet for The Harvey Girl! One will be included in the first I-don’t-know-how-many-copies yet of the signed first edition sold by the Poisoned Pen, so if you want one (I do) you better put your order in…
So I did extensive research (not) into how Clare does her hair to play her part as a Harvey Girl at the Harvey House in Montaña Roja in the New Mexico Territory in 1890. I have wash-and-wear curly hair that does pretty much whatever it wants to so a Gibson Girl updo was not remotely…
From the Rob Reiner film.
One of the great stories which seems to stick pretty close to the truth in this version, with an excellent performance by Selleck whom I did not even recognize at first, and free on YouTube at the moment.
I can’t believe I did this to myself again. A word of advice if you are ever delusional enough to buy this puzzle: Find the original image on the Xplorer website, download it and save it to your Photos on your phone, and then swipe in on whatever part of the puzzle you’re working on.…
Sunrise over Ringarogy. Drombeg Stone Circle, West Cork, Ireland. It’s hard to find, even for the locals, but Siri will get you there, and it is so worth the trip. The circle itself. All ancient religious sites have a spring. The people who made sure the site was saved for everyone to come and see…
