Wordless Wednesday: Lillian

In Memory of Lillian Josephine (Olsson) Maidak 1931-2014

Wordless Wednesday: Wildflowers

In Memory of Glenna Esther (Nelson) Tyler 1894-1940

Wordless Wednesday: Temporary Courthouse

The sheriff and assessor bunked in the W. E. Crissman law office until a courthouse was built, c. 1885

We Might as Well Die Here

I feel like I've been on a roll with Civil War ancestors lately--sorry, not sorry. For the longest time, I had no connections to the Civil War, and my only knowledge of the years between 1861 and 1865 came from high school--and later, college--history textbooks. But then I started this blog--forcing me to comb through [...]

Conversations with Gramps

I spent the past week in Buffalo, New York visiting my aunt and cousins and grandparents; we stopped by the Broadway Market for makowiec and placek, spent an afternoon wandering around Forest Lawn Cemetery and went wine tasting in the Finger Lakes. My favorite part of the trip, though, was going through old family photos [...]