Diary 1862, part 3: Over the River and Through the Woods and Up to the Quarry and Over to Earlville
She makes me and V.I. Warshawski look like homebodies.
Category: Family History
Diary 1862, Part 2: The writer’s identity
Whoever the writer is, it's certainly not Catharine's husband Amos, unless he's in the habit of referring to himself in the third person.
Diary 1862, Part 1: Who?
Through much of 2017 and 2018 I helped my mom pack up her house and get ready to move. In the process, we found this little diary among her mother’s things. Whose was it?
Cleo’s roses (and other flowers)
Lately I’ve been helping my mom go through some of her mother’s things. I’ve learned that Gramma liked to take pictures of flower arrangements. Sometimes the flowers have some context. This one is labeled “Cleo’s Birthday 1981 from Joy” (Gramma’s name was Cleo), and I recognize Gramma’s dining room furniture. Others are in places I...