America's North Shore Journal

Albert & Louisa Adermann and family, great uncle to the lovely wife.Young man is probably Ardele SkariRay, North DakotaTwo of these girls later died of TB within a couple years of each other. The third girl was an old maid, marrying when she was in her forties, possibly to the young man in the photo, [...]

Building the road over South HillThis postcard shows work being done in the Milnor, North Dakota area just before World War I. The lovely wife’s father is the small boy on the left of the photos, and he was born in 1904. Note that the road is being cut through a small hill, using horse-pulled [...]

Lorraine at American Lady is stuck in a poli sci class.

we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

When I returned from North Dakota two years ago, I brought back a number of photos that the lovely wife’s mother had. They date from fifty or more years ago. I’ll be posting them to preserve them, and to point out how far we’ve come.Shoe and leather repair shopA. A. Stockstad, Milnor, N.D. 1934Sign from [...]

Via Done With MirrorsEdmund BurkeIn this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from [...]

My brother, who studies these things, points me to an ancestor who served in the Civil War. Of note, everyone had been sent home just before the Battle of Gettysburg. Their enlistments were up. and, all their losses were due to disease. That’s the way it was during the Civil War. Edward H. Simmons was [...]

skippy linked my Days of Yore page [THANKS!] and his post produced a nice comment from one of his frequent commenters. I’m going to post it, and my reply, becuase I think it’s a good discussion to ponder. Thank you skippy for linking to these–it doesn’t go through Chuck’s usual heavy-on-bandwidth flag waving. Or thank [...]

Michele and others are very concerned that the divide between left and right in America will lead to another Summer of 68 this summer. I disagree.Blogs reflect very little of American political life, or American life in general. One of the greatest errors that we bloggers can make is to believe that we are anything [...]