by Howard Applegate
On June 8, the Class of 2008 will be walking up the aisle to receive their diplomas – all forty-three of them. Not only is this the largest graduating class in Old Paiute High School history, but it is also the highest percentage of freshman to stick out the entire four years. That’s [...]
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The Daughters of Germaine have posted a new page about the Seers of Germaine. You can see it at their website, here.
1848 – 1888 Victoria Bradford
Victoria Bradford 
became the first recipient of the gift of Germaine. Victoria was born in 1848, only two years after little Germaine died. When she was three years old, Victoria told her father that he should not go to market that day. She said, “If you go, Daddy, the pigs will die.” Unfortunately, her father did not heed his daughter’s warning. A terrible landslide buried the herd of pigs he was taking to market and his own life was saved only by chance itself.
The story rapidly spread throughout our little community. It was reported in the newspaper. Germaine Van Bibber’s mother went to visit the little Victoria and declared that she was strongly reminded of Germaine in the child’s presence and felt there was some kind of connection between Victoria and Germaine. “I would not say,” Mrs Van Bibber stated, “that Victoria is Germaine. That would be sacriligious. A blasphemy. I would say that my beloved daughter seems to be speaking to her. Almost as if she were a saint and little Victoria, still so young, innocent and pure, receives her words as if from heaven.”
As Victoria Bradford continued to speak as an oracle for her family and then for the community, it became clear to the women that something extraordinary was indeed taking place. In the interest of Victoria’s soul, the women created a society dedicated to guiding the child and cleaving her soul to God. They regarded themselves as true daughters of their community and also as mothers of Victoria. Together, they were sisters.
Thus began the society, the sorority, if you will, that is today known as The Daughters of Germaine. It is dedicated to nurturing each seer of Germaine, and to guiding the community in its journey along the path little Germaine Van Bibber so eloquently described on her deathbed as mortality shook her tender limbs and the vision of heaven descended upon her.
Victoria Bradford married late and bore her only child at the age of 40 and died only one month later, never having fully recovered from the difficult delivery.
(Read More at the DOG website….)
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We have added a new story line to The Germaine Truth. A Stranger in Town is the story of Cynthea McCoy, also know as Madame Zorro, the astrologer for The Germaine Truth newspaper. Patricia has written about 25 chapters, which we will post each week on Friday.
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The Germaine Truth website has finally been thoroughly updated, and new content is coming soon.
Stay tuned.
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We will be doing some major changes to The Germaine Truth site over the next few months to give a stronger voice to some of our characters, and we are in the process of designing an easier way for people to explore and follow the story.
Also in the plans is our long desire to add an accessible audio component to the blog, and to improve reader feedback functions.
This is a lot of work, but we also plan to keep up regular posts. We hope we don’t cause to much confusion to our current readers, but in the end, we think it will make The Germaine Truth a better experience for all.
Thank you in advance for your patience.
Duane Poncy and Patricia J. McLean
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Cheryl Hagedorn’s site, Blooking Central, has a three part discussion of The Germaine Truth, which came out of a back-and-forth between Cheryl and I about the site, and an article I wrote for her on the possibility of turning The Germaine Truth into a blook. Here is a link to Part One.
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We’ve learned recently that we have been awarded the Thinking Bloggers Award. We were nominated by Richard over at Undead Flowers, and now, to consumate our award, we must pass it on to five more blogs. We haven’t quite decided yet who are the lucky bloggers, but we should have a post here soon with the winners.
Cheryl Hagedorn over at Blooking Central might be on that list. She has a very active, and very thoughtful, blog covering all aspects of the blook world. I have written a guest column for her about The Germaine Truth, and I will let you know when she posts it.
Eli James, over at Novelr has a post about the need for a community for blookers. We thought you might like to take a look at it, particularly if you are a writer yourself. We agree completely with Eli that more community among writers is a good thing.
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You may have noticed that new posts on The Germaine Truth have slowed to a crawl. We are doing major overhaul work on our websites, including bringing a whole new set of sites online. In addition we are moveing in the month of June to our new home in Silverton, Oregon.
What that means for The Germaine Truth fans is a slow summer ahead. We plan to be back in the fall with more regular writing, but until then it will be as we can find time. Thank you all for continuing to read us. We haven’t given up on you.
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We are not sure about the answer to that question. The term “blook” was first invented by the self-publishing industry to sell their services to bloggers. Turn your blog into a blook and become famous!
In this definition, a blook is a blog which has been turned into a book. We don’t fit this definition, although we might someday.
However, blook is also used much more loosely around the internet to refer to serial fiction or non-fiction which could become a book at some point, but may not even be the authors’ goal at all. This is more where we see ourselves.
The Germaine Truth is something which a book can never be. It is part of a new form of literature which is dynamic in a way that only the internet can allow.
So, we may end up with a book in the end. And maybe that will give us a little income to make up for the tremendous amount of work we put into this thing. The problem with the whole internet thing is how to get an income without totally prostituting yourself to the advertisers. If anyone has figured this out, please send us a line.
We are also a bit put off by the whole term “blook”! Do we really want to be associated with such an ugly word?
Anyway, blook or not, The Germaine Truth goes on.
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We need photos of characters for The Germaine Truth. If you want to be a character in our story and have photos to contribute, we would love to use them.
Photos should not be too large, no larger than about 600k. 500 pixels on the largest dimension would be ideal, in jpg format.
You must own the photo, or rights the photo. The subject of the photo, if it’s not you, must give us permission to use their image also. If you upload a photo, please include a comment attesting this.
Send a message to photos (at) thegermainetruth.net, and we will give you upload instructions.
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