Vast Public Indifference

Graham was a big fan of Aladdin for a few years in the early '90s. Nice free-hand icing, mom! Lookin' good.

Caitlin and Mark, 14 July 2007

Mom, Biddie, and Wheeler, 1996, Gettysburg, PA

Caitlin and Ben, c. 1987

Amalia Pasqualina Hopkins was born Friday, 1 October 2010 at 11:52 a.m. She weighed 9 lbs., 14 oz. and was 22 inches long. Posting/comment...

Horst von Oppenfeld Pete's great-uncle Horst passed away recently at the age of 97. He led a strange and wonderful life, and his biog...

Getting all dressed up to get married, July 14, 2007. Recently, I happened across an article bemoaning the high cost of weddings. In gen...

Wheeler in his D'Artagnan phase, c. 1996 Happy 18!

Ramona and Edna Pownall, Rochester, NY, c. 1922 This is Pete's great-aunt, Edna B. Miller Pownall, who married his great-grandfather...

It's spring! Since spring is the season of first communions, I bring you a number of communion veils/headbands from my family. Dorot...

Are you watching Faces of America on PBS? You should be (also check out African American Lives and African American Lives 2 ). Pete and ...

I am a bit tardy in posting this, but only because I spent the day with my mom instead of blogging, so I guess that's ok. My mom is the ...

This week's edition of "Kids in Hats" features some good hats from my own family. The dashing fellow in the fur-lined cape an...

I apologize for the lack of new posts lately. Gravestones usually get pushed to the back burner during this time of year. In our family,...

Not really, but he is a manager for the UConn football team, so he keeps showing up in press photos. A few weeks ago, he celebrated a touchd...

In Good Wives , Laurel Ulrich writes about colonial New England women's role as Eve, Mother of All Living. In that chapter, she argues t...

Usually, when a gravestone is dedicated to more than one person, the people are related. They may be spouses , siblings , or parents with th...

Eighteenth-century epitaphs dedicated to women, children, and slaves often speak of the layers of dependency that bound the deceased to thei...