2012-06-25 17:59
The longest unambiguously documented human lifespan is that of French woman Jean Calment. She met Vincent Van Gogh in 1887 when she was a girl of twelve or thirteen, and died when she… Read More
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Each week Adam Lowe Martin, a free-lance writer from Charlotte, North Carolina, examines an event in the life of one of his ancestors. Each post is part family narrative and part history lesson, but also, and more importantly, each post is an interesting and exciting story.
2010-11-23 23:13
Hi Uncle Skip and Aunt Nancy-As you may know I was in Marblehead a few years ago and I went to Old Burial Hill, where several of our ancestors are buried. Its a beautiful graveyard o… Read More
2010-11-19 18:55
I had the wind taken out of my sails this week. I got a text from my brother Luke late Tuesday afternoon: “Text me quickly if you can. Who is the most interesting person fr… Read More
2010-11-10 20:42
"The Champion of the Seas"Samuel had been shipwrecked many times before, and had always been able to find aid, and often friendship, with the Islanders. This group of natives, ho… Read More
2010-11-10 20:41
"The Champion of the Seas"Samuel had been shipwrecked many times before, and had always been able to find aid, and often friendship, with the Islanders. This group of natives, ho… Read More
2010-11-03 15:30
I saw Johnny Drama this past weekend. He said that he enjoyed the blog post on The Leviathan of Parsonstown, but wondered why I haven’t written about what my forefathers, and for… Read More
2010-10-27 09:15
The “Leviathan of Parsonstown” was a sixty-foot giant, with an eye more than six feet across. For most of the 19th century it had provided the most magnified view of the sk… Read More
2010-10-27 09:15
The “Leviathan of Parsonstown” was a sixty-foot giant, with an eye more than six feet across. For most of the 19th century it had provided the most magnified view of the sk… Read More
2010-10-20 16:34
The widower was in his eightieth year and he lived in large stone mansion with a small number of servants. In his long life in the Mohawk River Valley he had witnessed a great many bat… Read More
2010-10-13 10:30
The foal was chestnut with black patches, and his owner, Edward Kennedy of County Kildare, hoped that the newborn horse he had named The Tetrarch would bring back the Herod line of thoroughb… Read More
2010-10-04 21:22
“There are seventy million Irish, and only one Irish newspaper,” is the somewhat hyperbolic tagline of The Irish Times. Although the paper has a significantly smaller… Read More
2010-09-29 14:22
Three hundred million years ago the Rocky Mountains began to push their way up through the earth and created the spectacular red sandstone formations that exist along the front-range today… Read More
2010-09-21 21:07
Ship "Argo" of Marblehead Bound Home, by Ashley Bowen (1783)Ashley Bowen, an Eighteenth Century resident of the coastal town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, was the first American maritime dia… Read More
2010-09-16 17:17
Sir Hugh Lane was a true connoisseur of fine art, and his gift for recognizing artistic genius had brought him the admiration of the art world, as well as a vast fortune. In the spring… Read More
2010-09-07 22:06
Civil war raged throughout England, and the period that would become known as The Anarchy was entering its thirteenth year. John Marshal, who had once been the staunch ally of King Ste… Read More
2010-08-31 19:27
“The scene was too horrible and sickening for language to describe. Human skeletons, disjointed bones, ghastly skulls and the hair of women were scattered in frightful profusio… Read More
2010-08-25 04:54
The summer of 1862 was coming to an end and autumn was close at hand in northern Illinois. Late August in Will County usually meant making sure everything was in order to bring in the… Read More
2010-08-18 06:00
As the small ship rocked violently in the North Sea storm, the twenty-year old Saxon princess sent a prayer to heaven. If The Lord Our God found, in His infinite wisdom, to allow her a… Read More
2010-08-11 12:46
Me & Nu: Childhood at CooleMe & Nu: Childhood at CooleIn 1915, a thirty-five year old accomplished Irish artist walked away from his career in order to join the British war effort… Read More
2010-08-04 10:57
It is a difficult marker to find. In Mobile, Alabama's Magnolia Cemetery there is a broken memorial stone to mark the grave of a Yankee sea captain who died in the Mobile Harbor 150 years… Read More
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