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Graves at Estaples
Posted in primary resource, World War One
Tagged Estaples, France, Grave in Estaples, old photo, photograph, primary document, World War One, WW I
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Memories
Today I returned to my home town to visit a sick cousin. Very Sick. I don’t want to write anything more permanent. Old habits die hard, only hardly forgotten. I parked the car in the space where I would have … Continue reading
Posted in Kingston, Modern Events, Short Story, Thoughts
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Great Grandmother’s Blanket?
I found my great-grandmother’s baby photo in the bottom of a trunk. Her name was Laura Bedell by marriage. I really would never have known it was her save the hand written note attached to it. I recognized my grandfather’s … Continue reading
Posted in children, historical, old photographs, Thoughts
Tagged Anne Foster, Anne Whitmarsh, historical, history, Laura Bedell, Laura Witmarsh, old blanket, old photo, photo, tin-type
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Granfather’s Journal (16 years old): Chapter 5
Soon afterwards I commenced to go to Queen Elisabeth Grammar School in High Barnet. It was not a real boarding school but the headmaster took in a few boys and I was duly installed as one of the few. The … Continue reading
A Captured Trench
My family seemed to know that they were a part of history; not that they were notables or history makers for anyone other than their own loving family, but a disproportionate amount of them (women included) seemed to have a … Continue reading
Brushed With Mystery 