Helping the present understand the past
Today’s Around the Town Thursday post focuses on a location not far from my house. I can’t recall the number of times I’ve driven past Herman E. Laird Park without stopping. Herman E. Laird Park is located in Shawnee, Kansas There are many wonderful aspects of the park: tennis courts, a playground, a picnic area…
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Welcome to another edition of Tombstone Tuesday! Today we’re not straying very far from last week’s tombstone. It belongs to my maternal grandfather, Edward Bell Conwell, Jr. Edward was the second of eight children of Edward Bell Conwell, Sr. and Zella May (McCabe) Conwell. He had five brothers (one older, four younger) and two sisters…
Since getting back into working on my family history I’ve been searching for ways to be mobile and stay organized while being mobile. I migrated from a desktop to a laptop several years ago and, while I love my Family TreeMaker program on my laptop, I just felt the laptop was still a little too…
Purely by chance I stumbled across Carolina Girl’s blog. I was searching something genealogy-related (hey, what can I say, I’ve slept since then!) and ran across her post “Blogging + Cousin Bait = Mystery Picture Success!”. It was such an enjoyable read that I started looking at her other posts and now I subscribe to…
Welcome to Around the Town Thursday! Around the Town Thursday is a way for me to highlight interesting, fun or useful places around my beautiful hometown of Kansas City. In the spotlight today is one of my favorite places: The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial. Liberty Memorial (during maintenance) The National World…