Helping the present understand the past
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…
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…