Crianlach Hotel – where my mother and her sister had lunch in July 1934 ?
Crianlach 1934
Is that vehicle their bus?
Month: March 2019
First Entry in My Mother’s 1934 Travel Diary
Crianlarich Scotland
My mother and her sister and a 3rd out for a brisk walk – photo from July 1934, Crianlarich Scotland
Church of Scotland in Crianlarich
Inside The Front Cover
Uncovering A Journey
My mother’s diary, a trip to Europe – June-July 1934
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
A Trysting Place
40 Days in Brede Abbey
Hello Friends
It wants but a few days to Lent 2019 and time for me to attempt to send out a daily email for the coming forty days of devotion
This year I will be writing reflections of one of my most cherished books, ‘In This House of Brede’ by Rumer Godden.
It is a work of what is called ‘faction’, not all of the incidents it relates occurred within the enclosure of one convent, however I have been a member of a religious order long enough to know that everything described here has happened to a monk or a nun somewhere! There is more than a ring of truth within its pages.
We will spend time looking at the challenges we face as we each try to follow the evangelical counsels laid upon us in our baptismal promises.
We will…
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Ancestor Count Update
As regular readers of this blog know, I am very keen on genealogy and am trying to extend my family tree as far as possible. The number of identified ancestors is now 17,481.
photo from 1945, in my backyard in Belmont Mass, it’s springtime – the lilac bush in the background is in bloom
3 generations – my great aunt, my mother and her 2 sisters, me and some of my cousins
photo of my maternal grandmother and 2 of her daughters (in Minneapolis 1912)
A Place Forgone
Postcard – Place et Statue de Stanislas L’Hotel de Ville et La Cathedrale
Once upon a time, long ago, I had a scholarship to study in Nancy in the North of France. For a variety of reasons I decided not to avail myself of this honor. A path not taken.
War Time London
This postcard from December 1915 just suggests the atmosphere and mood of London in WW1. The message on the reverse is a greeting expressing Best Wishes for 1916.
OSS in Kunming, China
Julia Child with OSS colleagues
The OSS group that included Julia Child and her future husband Paul found themselves in a flood in mid-August 1945. But what they were encountering was nothing compared to the civilians. Chinese villages of mud huts were “melting like chocolate.” Farmers drowned in their own fields. As the flooding began to subside, Japan was hit with the second atomic bomb.
The incoming Russian soldiers only added to the Pandora’s box that was already opened in China. The OSS HQ in Kunming went into overdrive. Eight mercy missions were launched to protect the 20,000 American and Allied POW’s and about 15,000 civilian internees.
Elizabeth McIntosh w/ colleagues during Kunming flood
All the frantic preparations – for rescue operations, food and medical drops and evacuation – had to undertaken despite the weather conditions. Adding to the drama was the uncertain fate of the 6-man OSS team dispatched…
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