If you are related to Renee via her mother, Joann (Schantz) Love, this article may be of interest to you! Scouting around the old newspaper articles I found a story about the golden anniversary celebration of Christian Schantz and Barbara Rich, my 2nd great-grandparents, married in 1853. The first thing that I see that I…
A Brief History of Jacob Mast by CZ Mast, 1911
If you related to Renee through her mother, Joann (Schantz) Love, this is of interest to you! I love archive.org! For books that are out of their copyright protection period, they have a huge collection of digitized books. This is the link to the Brief History of Bishop Jacob Mast published in 1911. This is…
Trials and Tribulations with Sideways Vacation Stories
Some things don’t always make it to Facebook… My Facebook feed sometimes reminds me of earlier posts. A photo of Don and I looking fabulous in Italy, in Umbria, from 2014 came up with “Your memories…” I laughed! Yes – I was immediately transported back! Here’s how it went down In September, 2014, Don and…
Snorkeling in the Galapagos
When I was a kid, my mother sold World Book Encyclopedias. Raise your hand if you had World Book Encyclopedias at your house. Both hands high up if your mom sold them, too! I’m not actually sure she sold any other than the set in our house; we got the deluxe version. I loved that…