Crashing The Mennonites & Anthropology Conference
Here I go again! Every year, I show up at this academic conference at the University of Winnipeg, which is put on by the Centre […]
History
A Never-Before-Seen Pic From My Grandparents’ Wedding Day!
When I was a girl, I spent many many hours with my paternal grandmother on our family’s Kleefeld dairy farm. Milking cows. Pitching straw bales. […]
Turn, Turn, Turn
I often feel like I’ve become interested in history — like, my own history, my family history — much too late in life. This is […]
Jacob Barkman: Born in Prussia, Buried in Manitoba
This past Saturday, Andrew and I got it into our heads to find his twice-over great-great-great-great-grandfather’s grave. We used the Find A Grave website to […]
Digging Through Very Old Photos!
Yes, I use a lot of exclamation marks… because I am thrilled! To be honest, I sometimes worry that family members would not want to […]