Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Americana
As the clock chimed eleven times, on the 11th of November, in the year of our Lord 1918, the Allied nations and Germany set into effect an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, effectively ending the First World War. A year later, the President of the United Stated proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration […]
Happy anniversary to my parents. On September 10, 1966, Ruth Ellen Woodman married Robert Carl Shepard, at the First Presbyterian Church in Paw Paw, Van Buren County, Michigan. It is said, if you go back far enough we are all related. And that families don’t always get along. Way back in Genesis we are told […]
[v=tFtVn8q6SR8] I’ve added a personal page to JCShepard.com with some clutter on history and genealogy: Â All Things Shepard. Â There’s a handy link over to the left of this blog’s main page, and on the top of individual post pages. I started this page on my old (pre-blog) personal website, which was mostly a collection of […]