One year ago today, I published my first post on Applegate Genealogy; it was a story about a found family photo that led me to my great-great-grandparents and sparked my interest in family history. Since then, I've published 167 stories on this blog (well, to be fair, one-third of those are Wordless Wednesday photos), met [...]
Matryoshka dolls--more commonly known as Russian nesting dolls--are sets of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. Matryoshka means "little maiden" or "mother," and the dolls have become a symbol of the babushka, a strong female matriarch and central figure in the family. My grandparents are Polish--not Russian--but my grandmother always had Russian [...]
Jane Austen's been in the spotlight more than usual lately; last month, the Daily Mail published a series of photographs of nineteenth-century aristocrats in their sprawling manors and estates. Unexpectedly, the photo album includes a number of Jane Austen's relatives--Captain Edward Bradford, who lost his arm in a tiger attack, and Fanny Knight, who was [...]
I never win anything; my grandmother has won the knitting competitions at the Erie County Fair for the past three years in a row now (no, really, she knits blankets and sweaters and she's made a name for herself in the Buffalo area), but I clearly didn't inherit the same luck. But then again, my [...]
Banner carried on North Carolina Equal Suffrage League float // May 20, 1914 I'd planned to meet a friend for lunch in Charlotte the other day, but she was running late (stuck at a never-ending bridal shower; the worst, am I right?). I decided to walk a couple of blocks to the Levine Museum of [...]
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