FRADD Helps Me Solve a Mystery
In photographing the pictures in one of my old albums I pulled out a small newspaper column, an obituary for a Mabel L. Dodd. I’m pretty sure that it was originally tucked into the frame of one of the pictures, …
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Using a Digital Camera to Copy
Our friend Ann and I spent the day recently trying out a technique she had discovered that allows you to use your digital camera to copy things that are not scannable for some reason. Ann is my more-or-less local photography …
Wakeman 5. Early Denmans and Apple Orchards in Northern Ohio
My Denman family line first migrated from Ditchling, Sussex, England to New York state up the Hudson River around Kingston and Rondout Creek in about 1795. They settled in the Neversink area in Sullivan County. It was from there that …
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Sorting Yet Another Pile
I’ve been sorting through yet another pile of mixed pictures, snapshots, ephemera, a letter or two (recent), etc. Somehow this pile landed on my desk. It may be an orphan-pile, left over from the boxes I was going through earlier …
Wakeman 4. Father Brings a Flour Mill to Town
To set the stage as I start this fourth in the Wakeman series (also described in the first one): this is a description of life in the early 1900s in a small north-central Ohio village. My mother interviewed and taped …