Exploring the Past to Improve the Future
By Eilene Lyon While on vacation in southern Arizona earlier this month, I headed into Tucson to visit a museum. The one I selected was The Mini Time Machine: Museum of Miniatures. Probably what immediately comes to mind are dollhouses. And yes, there are quite a few of those here, but much, much more. In... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon It’s time I shared a bit about a neglected line on my family tree, the Arbogasts of Alsace. They immigrated from a tiny village or commune in the Bas-Rhin department of France called Rittershoffen. The prefecture (capital) of Bas-Rhin is Strasbourg, a major city on the Upper Rhine River. Rittershoffen is about... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon I’m spending this week on a solo camping trip at the Tucson Mountain Park, the largest county park in the U.S. at 60,000 acres. Here in southern Arizona, I’m on the eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert, which encompasses northwestern Sonora, Mexico, most of Baja, and a small section of southeastern California.... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon Note: This is NOT about U.S. politics. This is also not a book review, though inspired by my recent reading of State of Fear by Michael Crichton. I’m not sure how this wound up on my bookshelf; possibly The Putterer picked it up at an airport years ago. While working through my... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon I've lately been reading a slim volume published in 2001 by the Quality Paperback Book Club, of which I was a member for many years. It's called The World's Best Shortest Stories (of all time) and features clever 55-word (or less) stories. Most have surprise twists at the end, some subtle, some... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon This one really IS from the vault, aka the storage closet under the stairs. It sports some serious dust, cobwebs and maybe a mouse turd or two. It’s been years since I put the clubs to use, but I suspect they may play a part in my future fitness regime. I grew... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon (Note: I originally wrote this, and stashed it, in 2011. I’ve updated the percentage of female pilots. Emily Howell Warner died in Littleton, Colorado, on July 3, 2020 at age 80.) Back in 2010, my husband and I took a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Orlando, Florida. Before we left the... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon Charlotte Mabel Halse Frydendall (1918–2007) I remember grandaunt Charlotte from childhood visits to the Frydendall cabin at Seal Rock, Oregon. They enlarged it when her husband, Cecil, retired and they could live there full-time. Charlotte grew up with her ten siblings in Codington County, South Dakota. Her brother, Al, worked with Cecil... Continue Reading →
By Eilene Lyon I come from a line of college-educated women, going back to my great-grandmother, Clara Ransom Davis, who was a graduate in the third class of the University of Idaho (UI, Moscow) in 1898. She ensured her niece, nephew, and two daughters all went to the University. Niece Clara Hockett, and daughters June... Continue Reading →
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