I took a humanities class in my sophomore year that I didn't really dread, but I didn't know my prof's obsession with American architecture would find its way into every lecture. i ended up becoming a bit obsessed myself!

Trump seems to enjoy destroying historic buildings. It began with the Bonwit-Teller building in NYC, which he tore down to build Trump Tower. I think it's safe to say historic art & architecture are at risk when he's around. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

I need to share this with my husband, who has Finnish ancestry.

One of my favorite plants!

I believe this is becoming less true, but even those who are technologically literate can have trouble. My mom taught computer programming in the 70s. However, she became very hard of hearing and had essential tremors as well in her 80s. Using a smartphone was not possible.

My daughter is a librarian and she has a time set up weekly for this. While most of those who come in are elderly, a fair number are young.

My god.

The name doesn’t sound familiar, but I’ll take a look at some of the resources I have. I have so many personal papers, plus newspaper articles, etc. You never know who knew who and where they might be mentioned.

Interesting! I don’t know much about settlement in those areas. It’s fun to find the records. My grandmother still had the original land patent documents from my 4x grt-gf.

I’m curious—what county? I’m working on several applications for the Michigan Pioneer Certificate right now. I have a few ancestors who came pre-statehood, and several families who came shortly thereafter, to Hillsdale/Lenawee counties.

Yes—they think it’s funny because the last three letters of democrat are RAT.