So, I'm back. Again. Life update? I've spent the past few weeks conducting a seemingly-endless stream of video chats and figuring out what works best for my students, their learning styles and their families' schedules (and what doesn't). I'm trying my hand at teaching "central message" for the first time--for the first time online, too--and [...]
Tag: World War II
Vive Dunkirk, Vive Dunkerque
On October 23, 1946, the city of Dunkirk "expressed the humble spirit of Thanksgiving" in the greatest demonstration of its history; the local newspaper described the night's conversation as "A Great Meeting," and emphasized that, "If you had attended the meeting in the high school auditorium the other night you could not have avoided a [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Into the Woods
A Father’s Day Reunion
I've never been to a family reunion, but a few weeks ago, I found a copy of a newspaper article about a Father's Day family reunion held in 1945. It's a story from the almost-but-not-quite-related side of my family tree; my great-grandmother's sister's husband's sister never had any children, but she helped to raise my [...]
Remembering PFC Manley J. Merrill
Manley John Merrill, 1945 Manley John Merrill was born on September 7, 1920 in Fredonia, New York to Jenness Nelson Merrill and Lola Mary Mau, and he had five siblings: Jenness (b. 1916), Laura (b. 1919), Leon (b. 1922), Eleanor (b. 1924) and Auleen (b. 1925). He married Nellie Martha Kniese--the daughter of Cornelius Jacobus [...]
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