Think of this as a little spring concerto played on bongos accompanied by the first and perhaps the last of the Dutchmen’s breeches . . . Part I, written on Sunday, in which Pineapple appears I’m invited out to dinner. My contribution is in the oven, and a little glass of pineapple juice is at […]
Nora Metz and I had breakfast at Sonny’s on Sunday, where we admired the finished mural and discovered two new puzzles—but this post is not about that. We took a little Sunday drive through Banks Township, Nora pointing out where the Evans farm, the Maple Hill School, and Bobby Woolverton’s house used to be—but this […]
Life is full of delightful twists and turns. This little photo album arrived in my mailbox in a plump package of stories and genealogical research, all the way from Oklahoma. When I held it in my hands, I felt as if I were touching Civil War veteran Daniel Blakely’s coatsleeve. The album belonged to his […]
Study the way this place changed from forest to farmland and resort area, and pretty soon you will find yourself up to your eyebrows in Civil War veterans. Men and boys—so many boys—who enlisted or were drafted, who lost a limb or languished from disease, who came home broken in some indefinable way. . . women who wrested survival […]
Bill Bennett has been in touch. Back when this blog began he sent some reminiscences about his Bennett and Dawson ancestors that inspired the “Ourstory” page. Now he has sent some photos, and I thought you’d like to see them. Wiltse barn-raising, 1910 In 1910 the neighbors gathered to raise a barn at the Wiltse […]
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