Learning Through Family Stories
We all have black sheep in our families. Maybe you can’t think of any in your immediate past, but we are all descended from Adam and Eve, and we all know what they did. So, when we dig, we will…
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Family. What a Great Idea!
My grandparents built a new house in the country during the 1950s. It was a three-bedroom ranch, built in the style of the times. The kitchen cabinets were knotty pine and the countertops were pink. As I have shared before,…
Serving Generation After Generation
Ray and I went to little Livingston, Tennessee, with friends last Friday night for opening night of its annual series of Christmas celebrations. This year’s theme is Christmas in the Country. At the end of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens…
When Your Children Are Grandparents
Every morning my email friend Betty (I called her Rose in this post back in August) sends me one of her breathtaking nature photograph and Bible verse emails. This is what she sent me on Wednesday. What a tribute to…
A Lesson from Country Dancing
Our family has enjoyed English and Scottish country dancing since 1998. Here’s a picture of Ray and me at our dance group’s Christmas Ball back in 2016. We have missed dancing since his health problems began in January of 2023,…
Lessons from a Laplander
Several of us at Notgrass History are busy these days with the final proofreading process for Our Great Big World, our daughter Mary Evelyn’s new world geography for children in grades 1 through 4. She has been in contact with…