Yesterday's New York Times article "A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Georgetown" reminded me just how much genealogy is a group effort. It took a network of people, from descendants of the enslaved and slave owners to historians and archivists to get that remarkable … [Read more...]
Treasure Chest Thursday: The MacDowell Colony
My first real writing job out of college was a part time position at my local daily newspaper. I called the cops twice a day in our county to see if anything interesting had happened in the past 24 hours and I wrote obituaries. Every now and again, my editor assigned me a light … [Read more...]
Hello, again.
About a year ago, I realized that my blog was broken. I tried to figure out what was wrong with it, but alas, life had given me other priorities. I had a Master of Fine Arts degree to finish, and a thesis project to submit that was different than what I was working on in my … [Read more...]
Finding Josephine in the Newspaper
I’ve written about my great-grandmother Josephine’s letters to the editor on this blog several times. But today, I had the chance to write about her editorials and the newspaper-writing vocation she and I share in TueNight - a weekly online publication. I hope you’ll check it … [Read more...]
Remembering New Orleans Ten Years After Katrina
Even though it’s been over a year since I posted here, I couldn’t let the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina go by without commemorating it. Katrina was one of the things that propelled me to try and find my ancestors. In fact, my husband, kids and I were preparing for a … [Read more...]
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