If you’re new to my Society Saturday series, I invite you to take a look at the other posts I’ve made concerning my work for the Nez Perce County Historical Society, which involves brushing up on my knowledge of Idaho … Continue reading
As this is my week of vacation from my job and I was planning to head down to the UGA Conference in Salt Lake this weekend anyway, I decided I might as well head down early and get a couple … Continue reading
This week’s challenge was less difficult for me than last week’s – in fact, here I am, completing it early! I find it a lot easier to do link posts, I suppose, because it allows me to promote the sites … Continue reading
Wisdom is passed down in every family, but in my family it all seems to come from the women (that has all sorts of possible connotations and jokes to be made that I will just side-step for the sake of … Continue reading
Found between the pages of my great-grandmother’s bible was this small obituary for her father, Robert “Bob” David Salmon. There are few photos of him, as this obituary states, and I’d not seen this one before I found this … Continue reading
This week‘s 31WBGB challenge was hard for me. Really hard. Not only was there a massive reading list of great material to get through, but I had major inferiority issues once I finally did get into it. Tonia gave … Continue reading
Continuing from last Saturday‘s post, we find Phineas Howard Howe right where we left him before, a year into his self-made exile from Maine and still in Calaveras County, California. In a letter dated … Continue reading
I am blessed to have my maternal grandmother living in the same town as me, and I try to drop in and visit with her every other week or so. She celebrated her 84th birthday just last month, and she’s … Continue reading
They’re famous in football and many other sports: the endzone/touchdown/goal-made celebration: a funky dance, a proposal to a cheerleader, a run-and-jump into a teammate or even the onlookers – they are all loved and hated by many, lamented as idiotic … Continue reading
I made an outing to the Hayden Branch of the Kootenai County Library today, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for months upon months. It’s a good two-hour drive, so I was waiting to couple that visit with … Continue reading