We found a whole trailer full of family stuff this afternoon. <\/p>\n
My dad and I were busily sinking 4x4s in the hopes of suspending the heavy punching bag and getting a workout. It should be noted that digging post holes through Virginia red clay is plenty of a workout, all by itself, as is toting lumber and mixing concrete. Anyway, we wanted to find the bag … and my dad remembered that it was in the trailer they used to move stuff down from DC to here. <\/p>\n
We opened up the trailer, and it was full of boxes. Many of these boxes said things like “old family photos.”<\/p>\n
Yep, so now I’ve got eight banker-boxes sitting on the table, here in the schoolhouse, looking at me. I decided to take a look through them:<\/p>\n
* naturalization certificates from the late 1800’s
\n* Photos of my grandfather, in his 20s.
\n* Pictures of my great, great grandmother … cooking something on a stove.
\n* A letter of introduction from a parish church in Prussia … which my ancestors carried across the ocean with them in the hopes that it would be of some good with the Prussian community in Detroit. <\/p>\n
Now I’ve got the scanner out, and I’m plugging through a few of them. I dunno … it seems that the paper is going to fall apart pretty soon here, but if I can go digital then these things will survive at least a little longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We found a whole trailer full of family stuff this afternoon. <\/p>\n
My dad and I were busily sinking 4x4s in the hopes of suspending the heavy punching bag and getting a workout. It should be noted that digging post holes through Virginia red clay is plenty of a workout, all by itself, as is . . . → Read More: Scraps and tidbits<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}