Warner Science Hall at Middlebury College in Vermont. I attended 1954-58. My geology and geography were taught in this building.
Author: Janet McKee
I currently wear many hats. My interests are genealogy, history, reading, knitting, and more. I now live in an assisted living retirement community.
Cold
Postcard from Norway – just to look at this view makes me feel cold – and bleak. It’s a color card but you would think it was black and white.
Not quite so cold – the summer clothing worn by the figures in the foreground give some warmth Hilsen Fra Nordland = Greetings from Nordland (a region in the far North of Norway)
Midnight Sun in Norway
A Day At The Fair – Postcards
Just one of the many treasures I found today at the Pacific Northwest Post Card Club meeting.
My Ancestors – Louis, Isaac and Isaac II Guion – New Rochelle, New York
(1) Louis Guion); (2) Isaac Guion; (3)Isaac Guion (II); (4) John Guion; (5) Elijah Guion, Sr.; (6) Elijah Guion, Jr.; (7) Alfred Beck Guion; (8) Alfred Duryee Guion; (9) Alfred Peabody Guion; (10) Judith Anne Guion
This may or may not be the first house Louis and Thomasse built in New Rochelle.
Louis Guion built the first house in New Rochelle, New York, on Bonnefoy’s Point (Hudson Park). Louis and Thomasse used the residence as a communal house while early inhabitants built their own homes. It was a cabin built upon a 6 foot stone cellar, sleeping dormer and thatch roof. Smaller homes were built along Boston Post Road, now Huguenot Street that runs through the middle of town, dividing east and west by North Avenue. Louis Guion was an early officer of New Rochelle, serving as a Collector.
The French language continued to be spoken, although by 1739 official…
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Voyage to California (12) – John Jackson Lewis – January to March, 1851
(1) John Jackson Lewis, (2) Edith May (Lewis) Rider, (3) Marian Faith (Rider) Irwin, (4) Marian Dunlop (Irwin) Guion, (5) Judith Anne Guion.
The following are transcriptions of John Jackson Lewis’s diary and journal of his voyage to California in 1851. He was travelling from New York to visit his older brother William in San Jose.
Diary:
Spend the day chiefly in writing. Took a walk out to some springs from which the natives were carrying away the water in jars, upon their heads, as fast as it issued from the aperture. On my return, stopped at a grove where some Americans were erecting a hotel. The grove is a beautiful place and contains a considerable variety of trees, both useful and ornamental.
Journal:
Spent a good deal of the day writing up my journal, which had got sadly in arrears. Walked out in the morning to one of the…
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Nature’s Abundance
I can’t remember where I spotted this colorful display – it must have been somewhere nearby on one of my recent neighborhood walks.
Latest Knitting
latest knitting – a sleeveless top – I’m about to do the final decreases.
And then I took a walk. And I met this handsome cat.
I saw this beautiful cat. And she was friendly.
The Cat and the Puzzle
We have reached a truce. The cat has not scattered the pieces of the puzzle now that I have strategically placed the puzzle box.
A Few Skyscrapers In Seattle
Seattle, 1912 – postcard
Shell Identification
A postcard from Florida – just what i need to identify my husband’s box of shells collected over 40 years ago when we lived in St. Lucia in the Caribbean. The things we save over the years! I am trying to clean out the garage!
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