One day when I was visiting my mother in her Philadelphia home I actually did something other than lie about and eat her excellent cooking. I sat my Mom down and went through most of the enormous number of family …
Yes, October 1 is really International Day of Older Persons, at least according to the United Nations and who am I to argue with the UN. I was completely unaware of International Day of Older Persons until a desperate …
On September 17, 1787 the final draft of the United States Constitution was signed in Philadelphia. We moved from being a Confederation of states to a nation with a strong central government. An election was scheduled on January 7, 1789 …
On this holiday we celebrate the American worker and his or her contribution to our American life, but the holiday was actually born as a way to appease workers after a brutal crackdown on the workers and the union during …
If I had known that the 1940 census would be this interesting I would have started looking at it a lot sooner. The last piece I posted for this blog was about my husband’s family’s appearance in the 1940 census …
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