Nell “Nellie” Catherine Bunyan Jennings Hardwick
It has been quite some time since I published one of my Postcard Stories. The reason is that I came across a postcard whose author is connected to a convoluted web of interesting characters....
Category: Genealogy
“And the day he died it was a birthday and I noticed it was mine.”
I have always liked Graham Nash’s song, Cathedral, and it is hard not to hum it when strolling through the Santa Fe national cemetery while taking gravestone photos for people. I’m always scanning others...
Uncle Otto’s Final Mission
23 July 1945. That is the date my Uncle Otto Anthony Mittelstadt and his plane, a model F4U-4 Corsair only months old, disappeared off the coast of Okinawa just as WWII was coming to...
Violent Football, Witchcraft, and the King James Bible: Another Gunter Connection Tale
European football can be (and has been) a brutal sport. So much so that during its formative years in England it was banned several times strictly because of the violence among players or among...
Distant cousin and scientist extraordinaire, Edmund Gunter
Distant cousin Edmund Gunter (b. 1581, Hertfordshire; d. 10 December 1626, London) has been a thorn in my side for some time now. While searching early newspapers and other publications for any information related...
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