tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67506141510119712.post2145952417031948998..comments2023-10-18T10:27:42.079-07:00Comments on Martin Eke: Holiday GallivantingGypmarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13938773894831848124noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67506141510119712.post-22541699315268016702007-06-06T13:48:00.000-07:002007-06-06T13:48:00.000-07:00Howdy!Thanks for the news of this wonderful blog. ...Howdy!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the news of this wonderful blog. Fantastic. Thanks for writing about the Memorial Day tradition. I fondly remember Chick's mom as a kind and dear woman and of course I cherish many, many memories of Rick. ... I was too often on the losing side of snowball fights with that guy! He had a deadly aim! I was just recalling a pillow fight I had with him (hmmm a fight theme here?) and the lovely blue glass vase I shattered with my left-handed poor aim. On a walk out to the mailbox later, Laurel was so gracious to tell me that I was much more valuable to her than the vase she'd brought back from their trip with GFC & my dad to Israel. I knew she'd never return there and I was beating myself up in guilt over the accident. It hadn't helped that my brother yelled at me as I was trying to clean up the glass in my bare feet. That made a miserable experience all the worse - so Laurel's loving words were the healing balm my poor soul needed. It still makes me cry. I even shared that story in our parenting class a couple weeks ago when we were talking about helping kids learn from their mistakes and not lecturing, etc.<BR/><BR/>On a family history note - I'm glad to see your interest in knowing where folks are buried and connecting with history, etc. Just this week I discovered a scrapbook here from Mary Elizabeth Parsons (Martin) from the late 1880's and tucked in was P.R.Martin's application for US citizenship and renouncing allegiance to all foreign powers and specifically the Queen of Britain and Ireland. Probably Queen Victoria, right? The rest of the scrapbook is filled with newspaper & Sunday School paper clippings, poetry, etc. - primarily re. the Temperance movement. There's even a copy of a Temperance Contract that was recorded in the Ross family Bible. (Did you know that one of our Temperance advocate ancestors lost their barn to a fire set by bootleggers?)<BR/><BR/>A few years ago, Dad, Betty and I took a couple wonderful trips out to the East coast and then to the mid-west. We took pictures and gravestone rubbings at graves of our ancestors dating back to the early 1700's and perhaps late 1600's. We visited museums featuring our history. I saw the knife Hannah Dustin used in her noteworthy ordeal. And - of course we saw the two statues in her honor. She would be Nels & Willem's 15th great grandmother - the first woman honored with statues in the colonies. <BR/><BR/>I just told Betty about the scrapbook and she's excited to see it when we get together for birthday celebrations soon. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for this blog - and thanks for bearing with this long comment. =) Maybe I'd better start a blog, too, huh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67506141510119712.post-26307805686787027622007-06-03T00:12:00.000-07:002007-06-03T00:12:00.000-07:00Well, see, I didn't even know that. Ah, the herit...Well, see, I didn't even know that. Ah, the heritage.Gypmarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13938773894831848124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67506141510119712.post-80493873735493687382007-06-02T20:28:00.000-07:002007-06-02T20:28:00.000-07:00Now, now. You do know where some of your relatives...Now, now. You do know where some of your relatives reside. Grandma Shay, Grandma Helen and Uncle Johnny are all on Grandpa's mantle with swap meet stuffed animals paying homage to them. Nearly as picturesque as freshly cut flowers in a small town grave yard. Your description is right out of Anne of Green Gables. Oh to be Anne!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com