Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Pretty much about using the National Archives for genealogical research, including ways to find former slave women. “… the women and children of colored soldiers …” And about what an excellent resource the National Archives’ Prologue magazine is. I’ve mentioned before that I’ve had a tough time finding  some of the women – of my [...]

The dead have been stomping around again (well, as much as they can stomp, what with being a bit insubstantial and all) and causing a hoopla, lately. Luckily, I am the only one who can hear them – and even I don’t exactly hear them so much as I feel their impatience, and worry, and [...]

This is a pretty amazing picture. I love the scene, I love the sky; they just don’t seem like they would go together. Togo is a narrow country sandwiched between the West African nations of Ghana and Benin. It was afflicted by the slave trade. The population fled inland. Today, some of their descendents sell [...]

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is [...]

Part of repairing and recapturing the past is first insisting that it exists. So much of what we know, or think we know, is maybe not wrong so much as it is part of that oft told single story. Perhaps, through photos and memories, another part of the story can be told.   Disney, in [...]

I mentioned some time back that I was going to open up my “book writing and research” site but I don’t think I ever gave the address. Anyway it’s called The Book of Louis and while it’s still a bit scattered, it is open. I’ll pull it all together soon.