Labor Day
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 …
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Life On The Farm PartII– guest blogger–Jack Costello
This is the second part of a series of the memories of Uncle Jack Costello about life on a farm in eastern Washington in the early twentieth century. You can read the first part here. Family farm diet ran heavily …
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They Said It Would Never Last
They said it would never last. They really did say that forty years ago when Norman and I were married and they had good reason. We are very different people, different interests, different religions, and raised in very different circumstances …
Timeline for Anna Donahue Costello
Here is a timeline for the life of Anna Donahue Costello, our Carnival of Genealogy entry for March 2010. Annie’s life is on the left and major historical events that affected her life are on the right. Please take the …
The Sheep and the Tar Baby or A Woman’s Work is Never Done
I bought my daughter a sheep for Christmas. No, we don’t actually have a four legged baaing creature tethered in the back yard, but we do have an entire fleece from one sheep. It arrived in a large box in …
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