6 July 2010
On this day in 1847, my grandparents gave me a gift. That’s the day the Johann Jacob Scheiber and his wife Christine Engel Meier/Mayer arrived in New York on the brig Johannes Christoph from Germany. They left their home in Trechtingshausen with their five-year-old son Frank, four-year-old Frederick, and a baby girl who had been [...]
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28 June 2010
It’s summer, and apparently other people have summer reading lists. I wouldn’t know, because this year I have a summer painting list instead. I’m sanding, priming and painting all of the trim in my house (and please don’t tell me that trim should never be painted, because you haven’t seen THIS trim, which is beyond [...]
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