[Author’s note: This series, on Mrs. Gray’s reading habits, began here.]
In May 1860, Regina Shober Gray [1] was visiting her family in Philadelphia.245 South Eighteenth Street, Wednesday,..
Continue reading[Author’s note: This series, on Mrs. Gray’s reading habits, began here.]
In May 1860, Regina Shober Gray [1] was visiting her family in Philadelphia.245 South Eighteenth Street, Wednesday,..
Continue reading →For the last few months I have been working with Judi Garner of the Jewish Heritage Center, here at NEHGS, on an exhibit of twentieth-century Jewish photographers and their subjects, and we are finally finished. The photos are framed and hung; the labels have been..
Continue reading →[Editor’s note: This blog post originally appeared in Vita Brevis on 29 June 2015.]
Over the years I have had the chance to discuss the subject of ethnicity (and identity) with avid genealogists and..
Continue reading →[Author’s note: This post concludes the series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary which began here.]
Mrs. Gray’s [1] summer was winding down, and while autumn impended she could..Continue reading →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..
Continue reading →Over the centuries, families have kept their own records of their history – by writing it in family Bibles; by sewing it into samplers and other needlework; by having it engraved onto objects; and sometimes by writing it into preprinted..
Continue reading →[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]
By the third week in August 1880, Mrs. Gray [1] was comfortably settled in New Hampshire, where she had..Continue reading →[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]
In 1880, Regina Shober Gray [1] became a grandmother (in January) and a widow (in February). The Gray..Continue reading →[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]
With the end of the summer in sight, I thought I would finish up this review of the Gray diary between..Continue reading →Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.