As our country was being settled and the population grew across America, many opportunities for influencing the country, community, their families, and other arose.  One...

 Sometimes when you are minding your own business, you bump into someone famous or infamous, as in this case.   Road Work Grandpa Joe McCracken...

Although my Pellett family moved from Ireland to America in the colonial days, I learned many years ago that they might actually have been from...

Grandma and Aunt Lydia never spoke about Warren Jury loud enough for anyone to really hear what they were discussing.  Fortunately, their brother, Uncle Pat...

  Cousins can be almost anybody.  I could probably write about the guy at the meat store and be able to research and find out...

If you would have told me earlier this year that by the end of the year I would have had the opportunity to hear the...

Sometimes troublemakers aren’t really bad guys.  Instead, they are people that push the limits a bit or just like to have some fun even if...

When I think of homebodies, I could write about many people, but what mostly comes to mind are all the women who were homemakers and...

Usually, papers being lost means a loss of information.  However, in the case of William Bassett, my 4th great-grandfather, the loss of his papers stating...

  Aunt Ruthe and Aunt Dee were very involved in exploring the spirit world in the 1970s.  Dee kept much of their writing, including a...