Here’s the latest conumdrum from this week’s research: I find myself immediately reacting to what I read rather than remembering that life in 1914 did not include things I take for granted in 2014, such as: polio and flu vaccines, the EEOC, the 19th Amendment, compulsory public education for minor […]
Do you have any off-limit topics in family gatherings? Sure you do! We all do! And when you have a big family (like I do), you know there are several key topics you just don’t discuss, unless you want to have a meltdown on a holiday. I’ve been a witness […]
Today’s throwback-Thursday research find is from the Milton (Fla.) Gazette, 1912. Pray, tell, what is ‘the girlish age?’ And what if that operator candidate was mature, but ‘a girl at heart?’
Yesterday, I mentioned that Emmett’s grandfather had a law partner, S.R. Mallory, and they worked in the Mallory Building in Pensacola during Reconstruction. My friend and colleague, the excellent Jacki Wilson at the Pensacola HIstorical Society sent me this: Jacki told me that what was on the original site of […]
One of the nice things about discussing the research on Emmett’s book in the blog is that I hear from folks now and then who also have an interest in research, especially as it pertains to West Florida archives. This past week, as you recall, I posted about finding Emmett’s […]
What you see is what I’m reading over the next week. No, of course, I don’t have to get it all done in seven days, but I’m on a roll and the research is getting interesting. Once I get into a book, I can’t put it down (unless it is […]
One hundred years ago today, Minnie Kehoe didn’t have the privilege of walking a few blocks down the road to her voting precinct and casting a ballot, as I do today. And so, in honor of Minnie, and the privilege she worked for, I took Minnie into the voting booth […]
A busy day at research central today: — Added about 100 new items into the Emmett Wilson database. Tedious, but part of the process. — Wrote three pages of the rough draft for chapter two. Going very slowly; driving me nuts because I’ve had to stop and start so much […]
In celebration of Halloween, I thought I’d share a little odd item I found a while back from Emmett’s college yearbook, The Argo, 1900: Rather appropriate for Halloween, isn’t it? I am curious about the Cemetery Club. What kind of club was it? When and where were their meetings […]
When conducting research on obscure people, you encounter plenty of informational brick walls. These can be frustrating, but you don’t have to let them stand in your way. My most recent information barrier centers on Emmett’s boyhood home. The Wilson family lived in two houses during the late 1800s. The […]
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