Exploring the Past to Improve the Future
By Eilene Lyon Back in the mid-90s, a friend coerced talked me into joining her in taking an evening woodworking class at the new Bayfield High School. The school had a large, well-equipped shop and an excellent instructor. I enjoyed it so much I attended for about five years, until the instructor retired. After building... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon In America we tend to think of sauerkraut as a traditional German dish. It was also an important food to my 3rd great-grandparents in the Jenkins-Bedford line. Their heritage was Welsh-English, not German. Abigail (Bedford) Jenkins mentions it twice in her gold-rush letters to her husband, Henry Z. Jenkins. From August 1851:... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon Late last year I shared with you the story of Ann Jenkins Ransom, who was William C. Ransom’s first wife. He had five wives and an unknown number of affairs. He did not always bother with the nicety of divorcing one wife before marrying another. The wives are well-documented except Number Four.... Continue Reading →
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