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Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 9
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
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Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 8
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 7
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
When Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day Combine
Have a blessed Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day. The Rev. Jay Sidebotham has appropriate greeting cards; take your pick.
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 6
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 5
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 4
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 3
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of Hezekiah...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 2
Hezekiah Scovil Porter WW I Diary Transcription continued The following is the next installment of the transcription of Hezekiah...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Part 1
This is the first of the actual entries from Hezekiah's diary . As a reminder, I (Porter) am posting two days of transcription...
Hezekiah Scovil Porter's Diary, Introduction
Hezekiah Scovil Porter was the youngest of Wallace and Florence Gesner (Wells) Porter's seven children, born into the tiny town of...
What Kind of White?
A National Public Radio story reports that the 2020 U. S. Census will ask more detailed questions about race and ethnicity, as...
Free Green Ember Books
TODAY, Februay 7, you can get the first two Green Ember books in Kindle format for FREE. Enjoy!
Mea Culpa?
When we visited Switzerland for Christmas, I thought our biggest gift was the Hot Wheels Ultimate Garage, which barely qualified as half...
The Adirondacks - My Heart's Home
Everywhere I go, I leave part of my heart behind. Every place I've lived is dear to me, every place our children have lived, many...
Pizza for Breakfast
It was an irresistable headline: Nutritionist claims pizza can be a healthier breakfast than cereal . I love breakfast. I could eat...
The Problem of David Wood, Revisited
A few months after my recent work on the David Wood branch of my family , I learned about the Register of Cohansey Seventh Day...
Another Essential Childhood "Vaccine"
In a comment on my previous post , my sister-in-law introduced me to Vicki Hoefle. In trying to figure out how to add a video link to...
The Let Grow Project for Schools
It's the American way, and even more so the Japanese way, and apparently the Swiss way also: the professionalism of parenthood. School...
Carl Lutz, Hero and Human
Carl Lutz , together with his wife, Gertrud , was instrumental in rescuing some 62,000 of Budapest's Jews from the Nazis, after he was...
My Grandparents' Rochester
In 1944, my grandparents moved across the continent from Pullman, Washington to Rochester, New York, where my grandfather worked until...
Reading Challenge
Since mid-November, my reading has been rather light, there being nothing intellectually challenging about my last 13 books. (Well,...
Oxymoronic Jeans
I need new jeans. This is a perennial situation; I've been looking for new jeans for years, waiting for comfort to come back in style. I...
The Next Green Ember Book Is Coming
I've been waiting over a year for the next book in the S. D. Smith's Green Ember series. As I said at the end of my review...
Chez Stücklin
On an out-of-the-way street in a suburb of Lucerne, Switzerland, hides a small, by-invitation-only restaurant called Chez Stücklin...