Ruby Tuesday.....

It started with a promise.

Standing on a hill in Orchard Grove Cemetery...

A grave marker leaning up against a tree....

a familiar, yet unknown name...

an overwhelming sense of the beautiful sadness of the circle of life...

and the genetic make up of a melancholy memory seeker soon to turn keeper.

The above ingredients compelled me to re-connect with the professional memory keeper in the Kenney/Tilton/Vandercar family....Ruby Lawson.

Ruby's genealogy book of names and dates, another book about the Kenney family history, several visits with the "Elders," all coupled with Grandma Fern's pictures, have made that corner of Orchard Grove filled with gravestones...come alive.

I hope to keep gathering and sharing stories....so keep telling and listening!

Flashback Friday....Kiss us, we're Irish (for real)

So...we're Irish.

This is the first year that I can really say that I know for sure that any one of us can say

and not just be saying a popular phrase.

I guess I knew this all along, but this is the first Saint Patrick's Day that it hit me that our maternal Great Great Grandparents lived in another country....called Ireland.

 According to most records....here's where we come from.

Oh, how I would have loved to hear our Great Grandparents Irish accent!