A genealogical journal
I ‘ve always known Wilford Luce, Jr. married three times. He divorced his first wife Dorothy Sharp. His second wife Essie Wilson died. (She was my great grandmother.) And his third wife Amanda Sizemore survived him by many, many years. What I didn’t know until the past few years was that he married his third…
One of the truly alarming things in life is stumbling across something you’ve written that has been re-published by someone else without attribution. I run into that all the time because I’ve been doing this so long. A while back, I had someone contact me through Findagrave.com to suggest I add a biography to Katharine…
Yesterday I wrote a bit about Doggerland, and that led to mentioning Hyperborean Apollo, and that led to a bit more research because Apollo is one of my enduring interests. I have a bit about Hyperborean Apollo at Greco-Roman Lore. primarily taken from Robert Graves, Greek Myths ยง 161.4. I think it might be worth…
There’s an area of land under the North Sea that was above water thousands of years ago, connecting what is now Great Britain and Denmark. The sea is relatively shallow in this area. Fishermen have dragged up remains of land animals and prehistoric tools. It’s been called the British Atlantis, but its formal name is…
And, just in case you don’t know what I’m talking about: What the Helly Aa? (Your guide to Shetland’s Up Helly Aa fire festivals).