September 14, 2020

What Was That Thing? And New Bern.

Last week I posted a photo of an antique item and asked you to guess what it was.…

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September 7, 2020

Revolutionary War, Barns, and Laundry

Imagine that you are a young man living in the late 1700s, the time of the Revolutionary War.  Your government needs you to fight but it has no money to pay you. What it does have is land.  Lots and lots of land. And so it tells you, “If you’ll fight in this war, you will be given 250 acres of Pennsylvania dirt.” And so…

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August 31, 2020

Pennsylvania. Old and New Friends. Lung News.

Hello from Orange, VA. …

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August 24, 2020

Celebrating Life. Commemorating Life.

(Note: there is a video from Ken’s funeral at the end of this post.) Sarah turned twenty-five yesterday.…

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