Edinburgh, Scotland: The tower of St. Giles` Cathedral on the left, the tower of Mayfield Salisbury Paris Church in the middle of the picture and Edinburgh Castle on the right.…
Imagine being born right after the Civil War and living to see the Space Age. Imagine growing up with the Brooklyn Bridge being built right in your neighborhood. Imagine traveling…
My grandfather, William Otto Joachim Ullrich, was a complicated man. Even his name was complicated. I never met him because he died of pneumonia at the young age of 43. …
In 1856, twenty-year-old John Carten (born McCarten), my second great granduncle, left his home in Pembroke, Maine and traveled to Australia, more than fifteen thousand miles away. John was searching for gold and Australia was the place to be. The search for gold never ended and John’s life…