Even though I’m not very far into this journal, as I’m transcribing it, I’ve already noted several instances of Grandma Rose saying that she’s in pain. I remember several years later when I was much older, she fell down the
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 7
Two birthdays this week for grandma and a day visit spent with her sister Ethel and husband Ralph Long. I’m very intrigued and yet, horrified, by the thought of salad dressing cake but that sounds most definitely like a 1970s
The 1977 Weekly Diary of Rose Jones Stewart Hochmuth
A few months ago, my cousin Kim gifted me with the 1977 weekly journal my great-grandma Rose Jones Stewart Hochmuth kept. She was going to give me the one for the year I was born which was 1974 but it
John Wickham & Bemus Heights
I’m very fortunate to live within 15 minutes of where my 7th GGF and Revolutionary War patriot, John Wickham, was stationed for a time at Fort Montgomery, New York. I’ve written before about visiting there and the surreal experience of
Remembering Dad
My father passed away in October. It’s taken me a while to write this. I started this two weeks after he’d passed with the intent to publish it much sooner; it’s just taken me this long to get my thoughts