Feb 032018
 

Genealogy is always a work in progress.1

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Footnotes
  1. Photo credit: Rick Mills, “Just after Kmart, Mt. Pleasant’s Family Dollar sign is removed,” Morning Sun, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan (http://www.themorningsun.com/general-news/20180201/just-after-kmart-mt-pleasants-family-dollar-sign-is-removed : downloaded February 2, 2018).
Sep 232011
 
Mum and Fodder

Mum and Fodder

I took this picture years ago while traveling a back road near Houghton Lake, Michigan with my mother.  She spotted this couple and wanted their picture.  I had to stop the car, turn around and go back to get it.  It’s an appropriate marriage picture to substitute for ancestors who were married before the invention of photography.

If you don’t know what you’re looking at, they’re stacks of large circular hay bales from a farmer’s field.