County of Los Angeles Bureau of Public Assistance, Belvedere Dist Professional Staff August 17, 1961#lacounty #socialworkers. Photograph in the collection of Vanessa Wood.
Sam Houston in Wilson County, TN
During a research for Wilson County, TN records on the Family Search website. I stumbled upon a news clipping for an article titled “Sam Houston was Admitted To Practice Law in Lebanon” from a newspaper published c. October 1963. The article was tucked in next to the page where the …
Paul Revere: There’s More to the Story Than a Midnight Ride
It’s been almost 250 years since Paul Revere’s ride and that is the most enduring image we have of Revere the patriot: lanterns and a wild horseback ride shouting “The British are coming!” Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth …
Old Rural Route Horse And Wagon Mail Delivery
I have a feeling I’m not the only one in my family who liked ephemera (fancy scraps of paper). Someone kept this note from the 1910’s (the date spot is “191_”, made for used between 1910-1919). Luster Roberts was born 1897 in rural Kentucky. I don’t know if these are …
Knitting History: Mademoiselle Branchardiere Author of Victorian Knitting Books
One thing I love as much as chasing history: knitting. I’m what they refer to in pattern instructions as an expert level knitter. I knit socks, sweaters, complex cables. I rewrite patterns to spice things up a bit. So when does knitting and history collide? In knitting history of course. …