Ancestry in a Minute – Over the last couple of years as I have busted through a lot of walls in my family tree. One(more…)
Category: Simply Me
Simply Smoked
Smoking meat has become a bit of an obsession around our house. We started with a small propane smoker and that set us off down(more…)
Simply Photography: Part 2
Now think about your composition….. Use natural lighting. Follow the light and have it to the back of you but be sure the sun is not(more…)
Simply Photography: Part 1
I was sitting with the kids the other day and our son said “Mama get your phone and take my picture”. This made me chuckle.(more…)
Simply Read: Moon Over Manifest
I find that when I get into a good book I get lost in the story. Like I am there witnessing it for myself. That(more…)
W.W. Hinkley
This week, I wanted to share a picture of a young man from the early 1900’s. For a long time I was not sure who he(more…)
Harrison Keele Part 4
From a Brick Wall to a Rabbit HoleIn the Topeka Journal on March 30, 1909, A woman named Mrs. Ethel Kerns tells a judge that(more…)
Harrison Keele Part 3
While there is no documented story of the “last scalping” and even though scalping was practiced through the turn of the century, I had my(more…)
Harrison Keele Part 2
I only had a child’s name to go on and so I was not sure where to search. I assumed that the spelling was Louis,(more…)