Birdie & Jay - Historical Fiction
Collection by Ella Joy Olsen - Author
Inspiration for a story based during the Gilded Age NYC. In a time of scientific exploration, the Museum of Natural History is embroiled in a scandal.
Audible cover for Birdie & Jay
Publication date March 2020
American Museum Natural History 77th Street Entrance
Historic red stone exterior is visible on the 77th Street entrance. Photo 2019.
Belvedere Castle in Central Park. Birdie & Jay walk here while working at the Museum of Natural History together. Birdie & Jay (novel).
5th Avenue at 66th Street new york 1900 - Google Search
Major Evolutionary Blunders: The Imaginary Piltdown Man
Focused and vividly imagining his next move, the young boy is filled with determination as his mind pictures the football soaring. He runs, positions his legs, and says aloud, “This time I’m gonna kick that ball!” On his back a moment later, a dazed and embarrassed Charlie Brown stares up at Lucy gleefully holding the football and wonders why he fell for her ploy yet again. His oft-repeated blunder over the almost 50 years Charles Schulz produced the Peanuts cartoon evidently connected
The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island
The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island
bellveue castle central park
Belvedere Castle - Central Park NYC
A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Piltdown Man is revealed as fake
how can you believe scientists who push evolution when there is story after story like this: Piltdown Man Hoax! Part of the skull of the Piltdown man, one of most famous fossil skulls in the world, declared a hoax by British Natural History Museum. The Piltdown fossils - portion of a skull, a jawbone, & a few teeth, were believed to be missing link between apes and humans. But in 1953, the jawbone was found to be that of modern ape that had been treated with chemicals to make it appear…
Roadster
Similar to the EMF Roadster owned by Archie Kane in the novel Birdie & Jay
Fifth Avenue Mansion
Similar to Beatrice (Birdie) Kane's family home.
Carnagie Dig
Dinosaur National Monument - 1909. The Piltdown hunt for the Missing Link was in 1912, an age of scientific exploration!