I know that I have shared this before but I have been tracing my ancestors for over twenty years.  It is a lot easier now that we have web s...

Jacob Routh was born in Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee on December 22, 1818.  Dandridge, the home of Douglas Lake, is billed as t...

What is on your bucket list?  We call a list of things that we want to do before we pass away a "bucket list" or before we ...

The fog never lifted today. It had rained during the night and the ground was still wet. A Women's Rally was planned at 1 p.m. and I ...

There is a wonderful little place to eat in Indianapolis called Piada.  It is Italian street food.  Not the Italian food that is heavily ...

Even though I grew up in the North, we ate Southern food. I grew up eating fried cabbage with bacon grease, salt, and pepper.  But as I g...

Isness. What an odd word. Upon first looking at the word it has the appearance of incompleteness. Could there be letters missing? I asked my...

I was thrilled when I decided to start researching the parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc...of the people who married into my Campbel...

Last weekend a friend and I took a mini vacation. We traveled to Detroit and then made our way around the city.  It was our goal to go on a ...

The war of 1812 isn't discussed much in the history books.  At lease, that I can remember. A few days again I encountered this woman ...