Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Waiting for Release

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In the Dark He lies in the gloom and wastes and waits. He is tired. He dreams of the tim...
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Thursday, November 1, 2018

On the First Cold Day of 2018

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Today felt like first winter when you're kind of delighted it's Christmastime but the sky is pewter and the air is cold and you won...
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Sunday, June 3, 2018

Remembering the Enslaved: Delia -- A guest post by Tom Scarborough

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This is an oil portrait that has been in my family since the 1840s. It is of an enslaved woman named Delia.  She was the house se...
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Friday, March 2, 2018

The Reckoning

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In the pictures  we seldom smiled. Stubborn children  forced to pause and pose before the hearth  in the cabin  in the woods in th...
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

In a Hollow Space

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A Hollow Space   By Elodie Pritchartt "The big sweetgum by the front gate finally died."   Every death affected him these days, an...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

A Child's Drawings from 1883

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My mother had a large cedar chest where she kept all our report cards, newspaper clippings, drawings, etc. that we'd done as children.  ...
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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Dream a Little Dream of Me

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Civil War Journal of my great, great grandfather, Henry Elias Munger Last night I dreamt I was out at Daddy's. He and I had gone thr...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Matters Familia - Ephemera

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I used to have a little online bookstore. I loved venturing out to libraries, Goodwill and Salvation Army stores looking for books to s...
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