As pioneers migrate from one area to another, they often find that circumstances require changes in the way they do things. One such example involves a pioneer named John Deere. You may be familiar with the name as being associated with the manufacture of tractors and..

Some years ago I was looking through a set of books that had been given to me by my wife’s grandmother. They were pictorial and history..

[Editor's note: This blog post originally appeared in Vita Brevis on 2 May 2016.]

When I was..

Many years ago, during a visit with my wife to her maternal grandparents, her grandfather asked if we could deliver some books which he had sold..

Recently a patron asked me why he was unable to find information on his ancestors who arrived before the Mayflower. I explained that Plymouth Colony was the first permanently..

When I was young, my mother mentioned that in her youth her parents would sometimes..