"Ghost Train" story in Cricket

[Linda Anderson]

For those of you who are interested in the legend of the Lincoln ghost train, Cricket Magazine has published my short story, "Ghost Train," in its February and March 2016 issues.

The story is about a boy whose grandfather, a Civil War vet, insists on taking his grandson to see the ghost train when it travels through Albany on the 53rd anniversary of the real funeral train's visit on April 26, 1865.

The illustrations were done by Phil Huling and they are amazing!

I used Scott Trostel's book, The Lincoln Funeral Train, for my author's note on the real funeral train. Interestingly, the article directly after my story is titled "Lincoln Laughs."

Here's the link to the story on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kleXsGSRK98

[RJNorton]

Kudos on your published articles, Linda!

[Anita]

Thanks Linda. I love a good creative Lincoln story. I'm not familiar with this publication but the content in this issue is worth checking out.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Very cool, Linda - kudos and congrats to you!!! Way to go!

[L Verge]

Congratulations on this publication, Linda. It's well-deserved. You are a great researcher and a very good writer.

[Linda Anderson]

Thank you all very much!

Anita, Cricket is a literary magazine for children ages 9-14.

[BettyO]

This is wonderful news, Linda! Kudos - you are such a grand researcher and historian! I can't wait to read it![/align]

[Linda Anderson]

This is wonderful news, Linda! Kudos - you are such a grand researcher and historian! I can't wait to read it![/align]

Thanks, Betty! Grandpa, whom I made a member of the New York 9th Heavy Artillery, also known as Seward's Pets, mentions Lewis Powell's attack on Secretary of State William Seward.

[LincolnMan]

Great job!

[Linda Anderson]

Great job!

Thanks, Bill.

People are still going to see the ghost train.

http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2012/10...olns-ghost

http://www.hudsonvalleyhalloweenmagazine...host-train

[RJNorton]

Congratulations to Linda as Part 2 of her short story about the legend of Lincoln's ghost train, "Ghost Train," won the 2017 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Magazine Merit Honor Certificate! Kudos, Linda!

https://www.scbwi.org/scbwi-announces-20...rd-winners

[Thomas Kearney]

I had to google what Cricket was and remembered getting its sister magazine Click as a child. Way to go Linda

[L Verge]

That's wonderful, Linda. Congratulations. We have very talented folks among us.

[BettyO]

Great going, Linda! This is wonderful news - you are a VERY talented lady!!

[Linda Anderson]

Thank you all very much!

The last time that Cricket won for fiction was in 2010 when the Merit Plaque went to "Respectfully, Robert E. Lee" by Sue Anderson (no relation).