Helping the present understand the past
Welcome to Tombstone Tuesday! Today’s tombstone is brought to you from Mount Washington Cemetery in Independence, MO and belongs to my maternal grandmother, Edith Marie (Brown) Conwell. Edith was the youngest child of Richard Selman Brown and Martha Lucinda (Vaughn) Brown. She had five older sisters and four older brothers. Edith was born 1 December…
I love going to estate sales. Some people might find it a little creepy to go sorting through the personal items of someone who’s deceased but I’ve discovered many interesting treasures at estate sales. It shocks and disturbs me to see family pictures and possible heirlooms being sold and I’m heartbroken that I’m not always…
As Julie Andrews sang in “The Sound of Music”: “Let’s start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start…” I’ve wondered about blogs, read blogs, shared interesting blog posts with friends, wished I had the ability to write a blog post, seriously considered writing a blog post and then convinced myself no…