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I Wonder: Who Will Be Her d'Entremont?
Published on 2010-08-20 21:24:00
We dropped our eldest daughter off at Villanova University this week. She's now doing her freshman orientation and we are reorienting ourselves to a house with only one teen daughter.The drop-off was a two day affair. We moved her into the dorm on Wednesday and came back Thursday for welcome events, meetings with advisors and other activities.When we arrived, we were greeted by a "Welcome Class of 2014" painted onto a grassy hillside. And we had two hours to admire it as we waited in one of
New Branches in the Family Tree
Published on 2010-08-14 14:55:00
I have discovered another ancestral home that now serves as part of an historic site: Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York. This is the Freer-Low House where a ninth great-grandfather, Hugo Freer, once lived.Regular visitors to this blog will have noticed my genealogy hobby and my pride in Mahaffie family history. I have written a few times about The Mahaffie House, now a museum in Olathe, Kansas. It was home to my great-great-grandparents JB Mahaffie and Lucinda Henderson who
A Representative Paragraph
Published on 2010-08-07 21:19:00
Every once in a while, I like to post here a representative paragraph from a book I'm reading. Usually, it's from a favorite author and this one is no exception.I'm just finishing the novel Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman. I've read it before. It was worth another look. here's part of why:It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the re
