If you’ve been itching to dig out those piles of inherited photo albums but you’re just not sure where to start - read on. It’s time to think outside the frame and discover some new and exciting ways to display your old family photos.
TWWP x Wall of Art A portrait of: Evelina Kroon With conversation as inspiration, the human encounter, a special aptitude for color and a large...
Love genealogy and creating? We've rounded up 6 family tree craft projects that are perfect for beginners and experts alike - and each and every project will produce a keepsake-quality end result that you'll be proud to show off or gift to others. Love genealogy and creating? We've rounded up 6 family tree craft projects that are perfect for beginners and experts alike - and each and every project will produce a keepsake-quality end result that you'll be proud to show off or gift to others.
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Accidental Mysteries is an online curiosity shop of extraordinary things, mined from the depths of the online world and brought to you each week by John Foster, a writer, designer and longtime collector of self-taught art and vernacular photography. This week's focus is taxonomies.
The tortured soul of Tommy Rodriquez.
It's Friday and we're a bit bored here at the office. So, we created this infographic.
Hi there, guys and dolls! You know the saying, “keeping up with the Joneses?” Well, the only Joneses I know personally (that would be Jay, Jill and their children Johnny and Janey yeah,…
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We may read volumes upon volumes of history books and make our teachers proud. But there’s nothing more all-telling than real pictures that document wonders of the past. With Joseph Niepce’s camera obscura used in 1827, humans realized that capturing fleeting moments and preserving them was possible. And they never looked back.
* “Master Profiles” is a series profiling all the great photographers of uncontrolled life. Unlike the rest of the blog, I’m doing these in a straight profile format to make it easy for quick access to facts, quotes and knowledge on all the masters. I’ll also group them together here every time I add a new one. Profile: Lars Tunbjörk (1956-2015) […]
The Blitz (short for Blitzkrieg, German for "lightning war") began on 7 September 1940, with more than 300 bombers involved. The attacks started on the East End before moving to central London. In total, 430 were killed and 1,600 badly injured that day...
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Preparing for a family vacation, Kathy and Matt explained to their young children that they would be sitting in the car for a very long time. The kids were told they would not be arriving at their destination until after dark, and were warned not to keep saying, "Are we there yet?" After a few minutes of peaceful driving, four year old Rachel perked up, "Is it dark yet?" When my kids were young, we used to make trips back to California from Houston, which was a 24 hour trip. Sometimes we would drive straight through, but usually we stopped in Las Cruces, New Mexico to visit friends. And of course we usually got the proverbial question, “Are we there yet?” and “How much longer?” But think about the trips our ancestors made. Days, weeks, months – the thought is staggering. Not only was the actual trip daunting, but the whole idea of leaving family and friends behind, quite possibly never to see them again, had to be a very difficult thing to do. I want to talk about my great-great grandfather, John Murrish. John was born in Cornwall, England on Feb 4, 1847. In April of 1848, his family left England to come to America. Now at the age of one year, he wasn’t aware of all he left behind. His sister Elizabeth was 2-1/2 years old and might have noticed that Grandma wasn’t around anymore. They traveled with their parents and three aunts to America and settled in Wisconsin. Their trip took two months on a sailing vessel and they never saw their grandmother again. The heartbreak that Jennie Murrish must have endured as she watched her son and grandchildren sail away to a new life must have been unimaginable. In this day and age, when we move away, as lots of us are prone to do, it is not a forever thing. Traveling by car or train is not hard to do nowadays. But not in those days. John Murrish grew up in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. He married Nora Marzolf, had children and lived among his parents and seven siblings. But in 1876, he made the decision to venture forth again. This time he traveled by covered wagon to Nebraska. He left Mineral Point in September of 1876 and traveled 480 miles to Kearney, Nebraska. Now in those days a wagon train could travel between 10 and 20 miles a day, depending on the terrain and weather. So it probably took them a little over a month for the trip. Traveling by wagon would have been a much harder trip than by sailing vessel. On the ship they would have been passengers with nothing much to do but be uncomfortable. But traveling by wagon would entail a lot more work. The horses had to be cared for each night and the wagon itself had to be kept in top condition. According to a biography written by John’s niece, Laura Fitzsimmons Mitchell (John’s sister Elizabeth’s daughter), John traveled with the Ashwood family to Nebraska. This was probably William Ashwood, who was to marry (or had already married) Nora’s sister Keturah Eliza Jane Marzolf. So of course I had to scrap a page about transportation in the old west. Here is my page about covered wagons. All kits used are by Jean Daugherty. The frames and journal scroll are from Heritage Chest Vol. 9 Vintage Word Papers. Both background papers are from Fireside Comforts and the elements are from Past Remembered. For more information on John Murrish, go here.
The interior decorator overhauled her 1930s regency-style residence into a refined family home grounded in history
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