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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

POE IN BOSTON

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One of the many islands of Boston Harbor is Castle Island, though for many years it’s been “attached” to the South Boston mainland and is re...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

THE HAUNTED BOOKS STORE 4

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For many years the premier writer of books that deal with the folklore and history of New England was Edward Rowe Snow. When I was growing u...
Monday, October 29, 2007

86 + 3

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There’s a great children’s picture book “86 Years” by Melinda Boroson that traces a family of Red Sox fans from 1918 down to 2004.The pictu...

THE HAUNTED BOOKS STORE3

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As I’ve mentioned before, whenever a book comes into the store that covers the colonial and 19th century American historical periods, I look...
Friday, October 26, 2007

OF FLUFFERNUTTERS AND HOT CHOCOLATE

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I did some grocery shopping today and fell prey to the store’s “Crazy Friday” offer of a box of Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate with Mini Marshmall...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

BLOGGING BRUNCH9

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Sitting here on my day off basking in the afterglow of last night’s Red Sox victory as I drink a cup of coffee and surf my fellow genealogy ...
Monday, October 22, 2007

BLOGGING BRUNCH8

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After having spent several hours in hunting for my lost wallet(I found it, btw) I sat down here with a cup of coffee and calmed down by brow...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

AND WALKING THROUGH THE GRAVEYARD I CHANCED UPON MYSELF

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Continuing in the Halloween vein(so to speak) for this month, there is another story from my days as a camp counselor on Cape Cod that if I’...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

THE HAUNTED BOOKS STORE2

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Remember what I said in the first post in this series about taking the word “haunted” and adding a state or city’s name to it for a Google s...
Monday, October 15, 2007

THE HELL HOUNDS OF BREWSTER

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Back in my college days, I spent three summers as a camp counselor at Camp Mitton in Brewster, Mass down on Cape Cod. One night during my la...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

THE HAUNTED BOOKS STORE

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Over the years working in a bookstore I’ve stocked and sold many titles that are brought in for the Halloween season: books on ghosts, witch...
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BEDTIME GENEALOGY 17

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Sometimes, the pieces of the genealogy puzzle just seem to fit together with a life of their own. I decided to search Footnote.com again for...
Friday, October 05, 2007

BLOGGING BRUNCH7

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Another leisurely blog brunch. One of the things only a bachelor could get away with on a day off! The 33rd Carnival of Genealogy is up and ...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

GENEALOGY IS MURDER

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As I’ve mentioned before, when not wracking my brain for anther genealogy use for a flutaphone, I work as a bookseller at the local location...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007

BEDTIME GENEALOGY 16

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I’m sort of delaying heading off to bed even though I’m really tired but I wanted to post this thought before it vanishes into the swiss che...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

ORPHA

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Her name appears on the 1860 Census of the Town of Upton, County of Oxford, State of Maine at the end of the list of names in John Cutter We...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

49 USES FOR A FLUTAPHONE NUMBER 14

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#14 -Distress Signal. IF you become lost in the stacks of a major genealogical library, DO NOT PANIC! Use your flutaphone to summon help by ...
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MRS. JESSIE H. TUTTLE PT5

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I have found approximately forty images at Footnotes.com in the Revolutionary War Pension Files of correspondence between Mrs. Jessie Hale T...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

BLOGGING BRUNCH6

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It seems to be a quiet day in many of the genealogy blogs I read most often so after watching the Patriots game I started to dl the the Revo...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

JOHN CUTTER WEST SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES

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Ok. Janice made me do it!
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