Quite often, I find myself thinking things like, “If not for this one thing having happened, I likely wouldn’t be where I am today.” I wonder, for instance, if my father hadn’t gotten into an accident that kept him from shipping off for Vietnam, how my life might have turned out differently. Or I start […]
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Finding my family’s version of “Little House in the Big Woods”
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On a campaign stop in Michigan today, Elizabeth Warren calls for a constitutional amendment to end gerrymandering, get corporate money out of politics, and protect voting rights
We know for a certainty that the tide is turning against the Republican Party demographically speaking. And, as a result, we know that the Republican Party, in an effort to retain power, has been devoting more time, effort and resources to gerrymandering, voter suppression and other activities intended to prevent non-Republicans from voting, like continuing […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, cycle powered cinema, Detroit, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, 2020 census, Constitutional amendments, demographics, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Generation Z, gerrymandering, Millennials, racism, redistricting, Republican Party, shifting national demographics, the collapse of the Republican party, Thomas Hofeller, voter suppression, voting rights, Voting Rights Act, young voters 106 Comments
The Swedes of Galesburg
Earlier this evening, I was thinking about my grandmother who passed away this last May, and I decided to scroll back through the photos I’d taken the last time I was with her. Well, there among all of the photos I’d taken of her and Clementine, was this one of the telegram that she’d sent […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1944, 1949 census, Anna Jacobson, Army, Arthur Robert Avery, Atlanta, August Jacobson, Beardstown, census data, Dorothy Avery, Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, Galesburg, genealogy, Great Depression, Illinois, immigration, John Lambie, Marilyn Ruth Lambie Tercek, Mark's ancestors, marriage, Mimi Dorothy, Pearl Harbor, Robert Avery, Sweden, swell, telegrams, Violet Jacobson Lambie, WWII 6 Comments