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Loni’s Irish Soda Bread And The McCarthy Family Story
The McCarthy family’s recipe for Irish soda bread is the kind of household record that carries more than measurements. Passed down by Loni, it belongs beside…
Using Land Deeds to Trace Telford Property in Illinois
Land deeds can turn a family story into a sequence of identifiable places, owners and dates. For the Telford family, an Illinois property may appear in several…
The 1952 South Family Reunion Through Loni's Photo Album
Loni's photo album sits in a quiet corner of the family archive, its leather cover worn soft from decades of handling. The South Family Reunion of 1952 was a…
The cider press at Tidwell Orchard: reading Allen Hackworth's prose
Allen Hackworth writes with the patience of someone who has spent decades beside old machines. In his prose piece about the cider press at Tidwell Orchard, the…
The Brighton Family's 1870 Census Record: A Window into Their Lives
The 1870 United States Census was conducted during a period of immense change across the American South, capturing families in the years immediately following…
Allen’s Prose: The Piano Bench That Held Sheet Music from 1900
The piano bench looked ordinary at first: dark wood, a hinged lid, a few scratches gathered over decades of use. Yet when it was opened, it revealed more than…
A Danish Coastal Farmhouse and Its Windmill
A home exchange in Denmark can offer a more intimate experience than a short hotel stay. Instead of moving between tourist districts, Australian visitors may…
Tidwell Telford, 1839-1917: A Matriarch Across Two Centuries
Eliza Tidwell Telford lived through nearly eighty years of extraordinary change on the American frontier and across the wider Anglo world. Born in 1839 in the…
Letters from 1924: The Morning We Opened a Box of Old Postcards
Two and a half years ago, on a grey winter morning in our small kitchen, we sliced the tape on a cardboard box that had been tucked away in a cousin's garage…
The Fence Line That Divided the South Farm in Allen Hackworth's Poem
Among the quieter pieces on Allen Hackworth's personal site, the verse about the fence that cleaved the South Farm sits like a marker post at the edge of a…