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”
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1900, 1918, 1918 flu, adoption, Bessie Roberts Wise, biscuits, Carrie Wise, census, Charles Maynard, Church of Christ, Cleve Wise, crackers, Curt Florian, Curtis Florian, Edgar Emerson Wise, Edgar Wise, family history, farming, feather bed, feathers, flu, food preservation, foster parents, Franklin County, geese, geneology, Georgetown, Gladys, Gladys Florian Phillips, Grover Cleveland Wise, Hattie Wise, horses, Jefferson Davis Wise, John Calhoun Wise, Kate Wise, Kentucky, land bounty, land warrant, Little House in the Big Woods, log cabin, Ma Florian, Mark's ancestors, Matilda Gill Wise, Mattie Belle Wise, Mattie Wise, midwife, Mimi Gladys, Minnie Florian, Minnie Wise, Minnie Wise Florian, Minor Branch, Minorsville, natural childbirth, old maid, orphans, Owen County, Pa Florian, poverty, public education, Sarah Catherine Emerson Wise, Scott County, smoking, spring house, Stamping Ground, subscription school, teaching, tobacco, War of 1812, Wise, Woodlake, Wythe Thomas Wise 10 Comments
Talking homesteading with sustainable design professor Joe Trumpey, learning about the business of curly hair with Original Moxie’s Rachel Blistein, and a fireside sing-along with the Yellow Rail Family …on episode 29 of the Saturday Six Pack
Come and get it…. Episode 29 of the Saturday Six Pack is now ready for consumption. The sound is a bit off for the first 20 minutes or so, thanks to a bit of malicious engineering by a disgruntled member of the Yellow Rail Family collective, but, if you like reverb, it’s actually kind of […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged building with straw bales, Casey Dawson, Chris Stranad, David Patrick Kelly, doomsteading, Grass Lake, hair care, homesteading, Joseph Trumpey, Little House on the Prairie, off-grid, Original Moxie, Rachel Blistein, radical sustainability, Ryan Dawson, Sandy Acres Farm, Six Pack Portrait Project, straw bales, Sustainability, The Warriors, WWPID, Yellow Rail Family 11 Comments
My thoughts on movies and books to share with your kids through the age of nine
Two things happened this week that prompted me to write this post. The world celebrated what would have been Roald Dahl’s 97th birthday, and, a day or two later, my friends Murph and Cara welcomed two beautiful little babies into the world. So, as Linette set off in one direction this evening, to arrange for […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life Also tagged Arnold Lobel, Billy Wilder, books, Cara Talaska, children's literature, Eric Carle, Frog and Toad, genocide, Go Ice Cream, Harry Potter, Huckleberry Finn, life lessons, Little House on the Prairie, Mark Twain, Marquee Moon, Murph, n-word, Native Americans, Richard Murph, Roald Dahl, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Star Wars, The Onion, The Prisoner, Thin Man, Tom Sawyer, truth pond 23 Comments