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,…
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…
I have been working my way through one of Ray’s favorite books, Democracy in America, written by French aristocrat and lawyer, Alexis de Tocqueville. De Tocqueville came to America with fellow lawyer Gustave de Beaumont in 1831 to study our…
Our two youngest grandsons, ages almost five and almost two, spent the night with us on Sunday night. Sunday night was the almost-two-year-old’s first sleepover with Notty and Little. The almost-five-year-old has spent many nights with us. However, for the…
This chromolithograph c. 1897 is entitled “Jolly Good Friends.” Friends who are jolly and good love us, look out for our welfare, help us when we are in need, give us companionship, and bless us in many other ways. However,…
On Friday Ray and I had an opportunity to observe men of three generations who work together. They include: A father—I’ll call him Dan. Dan’s two sons—I’ll call them Mike and Frank. Mike’s son—I’ll call him Scott. At one time,…
