His Slide Rule

February 14, 2016

As I toured my Dad’s new workshop and then his storage shed the item on one of the shelves caught my …

All of the sudden…

July 28, 2013

The use of the word tornado was banned from official releases by the U.S. Weather Bureau from 1887 until 1938. …

January 5, 2013

For years I’ve tried to imagine the layout of my grandparents’ home as I heard my Dad tell me stories …

December 9, 2012

December 9, 1938 John Brown died of a heart attack at his home in Oklahoma City. That was all the …

December 21, 2011

October 31, 2011

Going trick or treating was so much fun. Dressing up, being out past when the street lights came on, being …

October 23, 2011

Sometimes it’s the everyday events in my ancestors’ lives that just never enter my mind. Today, as I was hunting …