A few yards west of a winding dirt road in a rural township, past the point where the snowplows bother to service in the winter, is a world cut off from the sight of the casual passer-by. It can barely be glimpsed through the maples and oaks that now line the roadway, a distant clearing… Continue reading Set in Stone
Something I dearly love about public history is the variety of work available. One minute I’m plumbing the depths of online census records, going blind over 19th-century penmanship and wondering why names like Domer and Achsah haven’t made a come-back yet. And the next, I’m cleaning a century’s worth of barn dirt off of a… Continue reading Barn Treasure
The Free-Range Historian 