Double Dose of Whiting DNA, chairs, giant pickerels, and maple syrup
Sequestered here at my home in Bella Vista, Arkansas waiting for a vaccine or cure, I’m thinking of the relatives on my father’s side....
Sequestered here at my home in Bella Vista, Arkansas waiting for a vaccine or cure, I’m thinking of the relatives on my father’s side....
Uncle Larry, My Dad, and the ‘Rooster’ The ‘rooster story’ came to me piecemeal when I was ten years old, riding with Uncle Larry in his...
My father had five brothers and one sister that have all passed on now. I’ve always wondered what their lives were like living during...
When genes were sorted at random my brother Dale got more of mom’s Italian ones. During the gene shuffling I ended up looking more like...
Cassius Sherman stepped from his cabin door January 7, 1873 and was greeted with a soft wind that held the promise of an early spring. ...
Megan’s great Christmas blog, which included Grandma Maude’s story of the uninvited Christmas guest, prompted me to see if I had any more...
I recently spent a few hours listening to my grandmother and her siblings recount stories of their childhoods. Seated around a coffee...
Sharon Lee Sherman was born October 24, 1938, the same week that Orson Welles caused panic in the U.S. when he broadcast a realistic...
Unless you were abandoned and raised by wolves you can probably name the people who influenced you the most in your childhood. Those...
. My brother Dale is more than a memory. In some ways he is still here, a presence that can’t be explained. The warmth of his low bass...
Me standing in front of the big maple tree in our front yard - the neighbors grapevines behind me I Googled and Zillowed a street view of...
That’s how I remember it. The year after my dad crashed his plane I was playing in the sandbox beneath the big apple tree in our...
At 4:45 on the afternoon of July 6, 1946 my father stalled the engine of his plane and started a spin move above a crowd of thousands at...
As you can see from the two previous blogs the ancestry of Albert (o) Anatole Alberti is still being discovered by the meticulous...
In this media driven age that celebrates fame and fortune it’s easy to think we mere mortals are insignificant in the brief flicker of...
There are a lot of unanswered questions about my parents that I had hoped to find in the pile of letters I’ve been reading. I find...
I’m just completing my 75th flight path around the Sun. Most men on this planet circuit the sun sixty seven times before their ticket to...
During a span of 200 years, five generations of my Sherman ancestors remained in the Suffolk area of England. If one of them had decided...
I try to imagine what life looked like through the eyes of my Puritan ancestors in New England. I’m not happy with twenty- first century...
Tracking Samuel Sherman, my 10th great grandfather, through the New England wilderness has been difficult. Fortunately, he was prominent...