Tonight I participated in the 51st graduation of Hamden Adult Education. Last year was a special event as we celebrated not only 50 years of educating adults, but also 50 years of service by our Coordinator, Carl Mungiguerra. This year, though, was something else. In less than one week, our Director, LuAnn Gallicchio managed to […]
Read MoreI did it! I have posted every day of the 21 Day Family Connection Experiment. As explained on their site “It started during the world-wide pandemic by a group of family historians. They collaborated and decided to measure the psychological benefits of increasing family connections during times of crisis, stress, or even personal struggles.” The […]
Read MoreThe activity for Day 20 of the Family Connection Experiment is supposed to be to create a family calendar. I think I’ve made one before. But, thanks to Facebook we are now pretty good at remembering the birthdays of our living relatives. Because of that, and because I got really good feedback on yesterday’s post, […]
Read MoreBack on track with the 21 Day Family Connections project. Today’s activity has us creating a family capsule. What a perfect opportunity to capture some memories of our “New World” – where we spend our days at home, listening to the news reports and waiting for THE BIG DAY – the day the numbers of […]
Read MoreThe activity for Day 18 of the Family History Connection experiment is to write about traditons. I could do that. We do have some traditions – Christmas Eve, peach and plum cake baking in the fall, and… um… uh… Honestly, I’m kind of at a loss on this subject. Shameful! Not only can I not […]
Read MoreIn my last post I shared family trees created by the youngest members of our family. Today I will share two more. My niece Meghan sent her twins’ tree drawings along with a school project they did this past week. Their project reminded me a fun activity I used years ago. More about that in […]
Read MoreThe activity for Day 16 of the 21 Day Family Connection Experiment is to draw a family tree. That is quite the daunting task for me. Two parents, multiple step-parents, full siblings, half-siblings, step- siblings, adoptions,. That’s why I characterize our family tree as a “bramblebush.” My father thought that was funny. Good thing. It’s […]
Read MoreThis is may be the last post in my recent series – “The Food of Our Family.” You never know though, I may have more to share on the subject!! My mother had an amazing collection of cookbooks. I think she even used many of them! I also amassed a decent size collection, but as […]
Read MoreThis is another in my series of posts about food and my family. Many, many years ago I purchased a lovely wooden recipe box, hand-painted by Debbi Wetzel, of “Woodzels by Wetzel.” It was the height of the country decorating craze and I purchased as many of her items as possible in this design. There […]
Read MoreToday’s activity for the 21 Day Family History Connection Experiment is to explore the US Census. In 2032, the first census listing my family home will be available – the one for 1960. (Census information is not released publicly until 72 years following the census year.) Hope I’ll be around to view it. I almost […]
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Who We Are and How We Got This Way 