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 …
I was absent from the blog for the month of August because I was traveling in the Pacific Northwest. The best part of my travels was attending the Costello family reunion in Spokane. This is my husband’s family. There was …
In a variation on the theme, this post is about three sisters who came to America and went in different directions. There actually were more than 3 Yellin sisters and there was a brother too. And some of them did …
I just returned from a 2 1/2 day roadtrip, with my sister, to Becket Massachusetts and environs. This was another of our short trips intended to get my sister out of town and away for a short time, and to …
“When Father sold the farm and moved to town so that Mother could take care of her parents, he was left with nothing to occupy his time and he had to figure out something that he would do. [This was …