Note: I used initials to identify people in this blog post for privacy reasons. In February, I got a phone call from an unknown number. I knew by the area code that it was from South Carolina. I have some family there, so I answered it. It was B, one of the people who helped […]
Nancy H. Vest, Writer
Keeping Grandma Alive...and all the others, too... by sharing Faith, Stories, and Wisdom from Generation to Generation
Liars and Thieves
This is another installment in the series entitled Things to Be Learned From Dead People. I didn’t personally know my maternal grandfather, Joel Daniel “Daniel” MARTIN (1886-1955). He passed before I was born, but my mother (his daughter) talked about him often. My grandma (his widow) talked about him sometimes, too, but I think talking […]
Favorite Photo: Photobomb at a Family Reunion
Favorite Photo was a recent prompt from 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Here’s the story behind another of my favorite photos. A Martin family reunion took place around 1963, somewhere in Northern Virginia. It may have been at Great Falls. I don’t have but a few flashes of memory of it since I was so […]
