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Monday, May 29, 2023

#MemorialDay, remembering a female patriot ancestor

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© 2022 Christy K Robinson We are taught stories about heroic men who gave their lives to bring independence and liberty to their families, f...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Grandma's blueberry battalion

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Forest blueberries.  Source: USDA.gov   © 2022 Christy K Robinson  My grandmother, Lois Stone Steen, of International Falls, Minnesota, was ...
Monday, August 1, 2022

When the dog days of summer are actually dog months

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I offer up these photos of my great-aunt Helen Stone Prebil, doing what she and her sisters often did in the winters of International Falls,...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

The disowned Quaker

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  © 2022 Christy K Robinson In my family tree, I have numerous lines of Quaker Friends. But this story is about the ones that got away. They...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

A no-good, horrible, terrible day

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© 2022 Christy K Robinson I was looking at the events in the life of my great-great grandmother, Mabel Alice Rowley Hall, when I noticed tha...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Sir John Harrington, inventor of the first flush toilet

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©  2021 Christy K Robinson Sir John Harrington, 1560-1612, was my 11th great-grandfather. He and his wife, Lady Mary Rogers, had around 20 c...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

To love this world the less, and heaven the more

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Rev. John Robinson and love for his flock amid great loss #OnThisDay30June1621 ©  2021 Christy K Robinson When the Mayflower made the peri...