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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An online architectural tour of my earliest years in Frankfort, Kentucky
If you’re reading this in the future, and want to send a cyborg back in time in order to keep me from being born, so that I don’t destroy Skynet, or do whatever terrible and awesome thing it is that I’m going to do in my remaining years here on earth, this is where you […]
Posted in geneology, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1918 flu, Angie Condreva, architecture, AT&T, bourbon, Buffalo Trace, Charles Augustus Maynard, Charles Maynard, Curtis Florian, cyborg, Daniel Boone National Forrest, family history, Frankfort, Goodwood Brewing, guns, houseboats, Kentucky, Lake Cumberland, Little Mister Frankfort, Mark Meade, Mark's ancestors, Monticello, Navy, Paty Maynard, Portsmouth, Rabbit Hash, Saint Joseph Hospital, Skynet, T-800, Terminator, the draft, Vietnam War, White Sulphur 9 Comments