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Marie lived many years ago. She came from a poor farm family in Kentucky, and left home at seventeen to be married. She lived an ordinary life, filled with hard work and little extra. But Marie had a God-given musical talent. She could play piano, guitar, and violin “by ear.” ...

Many find history boring in a school book. What’s so exciting about people who lived hundreds of years ago? Who wants to hear about all the tragedies and struggles of people who’ve been dead for centuries? But learning the history of your own family is another story. Most of us ...

Yellowed and torn with age, the newspapers held obituaries as varied as the lives they represented. There were stories of childhood lost, lingering illness with hope for recovery, the mentioning of a graduation still looked forward to, a marriage ended in one spouse’s death when only months old, and the ...

“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) Revenge can be a temptation, a natural desire in the face of a threat or a hurtful act on the part of another. It can certainly seem deserved when an injustice is done. But ...

I didn’t know my two grandfathers well, they both passed away before I was four years old. One let me sit on his lap and listen to his pocket watch, the other shared ice cream sanwhiches with me. Both were first-generation Americans. One left school after sixth-grade, the other attended ...