Ancestor Soup

The Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the most popular New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, offered jobs to unemployed yo...

There were a million reasons to skip stopping at the cemetery – we didn’t know where the grave was located.  It was a huge cemetery.  We had...

This … umm… “item” belonged to my grandmother, Lisa Hammer , who came to the United States from Norway in the 1950s.  I suspect it had so...

I can honestly say I’ve never worked so hard to photograph a cemetery.  While I was fairly sure the person I was looking for was not buried...

I spent some time this morning drinking a few cups of coffee and reading the latest issue of the “ Shades of the Departed ” online magazine ...

Many thanks to Debra Wilson, who has solved the mystery of the Loyal Americans by finding the following pin: which bears a striking res...

This “Loyal Americans” pin was found among some old items I was given.  I don’t know who it belonged to, the geographic region it came f...