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Vintage Photos Make for Time Travel

Okay, so I’m cheating a bit here, but I’ve been extremely involved with starting a new website, Ancestors In Aprons, so this is a bit of time travel for Travel Photo Thursday with vintage photos.

Ancestors in Aprons is about tracking ancestors, memories triggered by food, and family, and a big part of it is vintage photos. I’m fortunate to have a wide range of pictures of my family members from tintypes to Kodak Brownie snapshots to digitals. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the challenges there are in bringing those vintage photos to the web page. I have no fancy photo editing equipment, using Picasa to do whatever needs to be done.

Henry Butts
Great Grandfather, Civil War Vet, Henry Butts.
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Time Traveler Visits Paris’ Literary World

A shop for writers
A shop for writers, Paris

Destination: Paris (1937)


Book: Chasing Sylvia Beach (NEW June 2012) by Cynthia Morris

Hasn’t every lover of books and lover of Paris said, “What I would give to spend time in Paris during the pre-World War II days when all those famous writers gathered at Shakespeare and Company bookshop?” Continue reading Time Traveler Visits Paris’ Literary World

An Old Fashioned Love Story – Literally

FAMILY TRAVEL FRIDAY

Destination: Italy (14th Century)

Book: Waterfall, the River of Time triology by by Lisa T. Bergren (Young Adult)

By Jennifer Close

Imagine finding a portal that takes you back to 14th century Italy where you are immediately immersed in a battle between gallant knights and their fierce enemies. This is exactly what happened to modern day teenager, Gabriella, when she and her sister were exploring where they weren’t supposed to be in Waterfall, the first book of the River of Time trilogy by Lisa T. Bergren. Continue reading An Old Fashioned Love Story – Literally