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🌱 Planting seeds of family history - one photo, one story at a time. #artofrecollection 📃 "In the end, we'll all become stories.". ~M.Atwood

I ran across this info just before the holiday and

I ran across this info just before the holiday and am just now digging in. In this roster of American Civil War soldiers are a few familiar surnames. Crow is the line I've been working on for months and here is a new name for my tree: "Boot Crow".

More than likely, "Boot" is William H "Boot" Crow, a grand-nephew of my 3x great grandfather, Moses. As I find/add proofs to my tree, I am thinking about family dynamics - especially since we are just a few days past a family-centered holiday.

Many of us have family members with whom we are uncomfortable for a variety of reasons. It's often a difference in world views, or words misspoken or misunderstood, or differing lifestyles resulting in what seem to be insurmountable obstacles.

Speaking of obstacles, in the 1860's, in my home county, there was division. Part of the county leaned to one side during the war. The other part was strongly opposed. The members of my family tree that I have been able to verify, all served supporting the Union.

However, there is evidence my 3x great grandfather, Moses, may have sympathized with the other side. If nothing else, he would have been conflicted.

Moses died in 1863 just before the county created an oath of allegiance that educators were required to take before they were "allowed to serve or teach in the County."¹

In part the oath reads, "I do Solemnly Swear that I will Support the Constitution of the United States ... That I will not give aid to the rebellion against the Government of the United States ... So help me God." 9 Jul 1864¹

We sometimes view our family gatherings as emotional time bombs. But seriously? Often what divides us today are petty differences, unlike my ancestors who may have found themselves sharing a holiday meal with veterans from both sides. I can hardly imagine.

¹One Century of Lyon County History, 1964 (avail.@ Lyon Co KY Historical Society)

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Years ago, my husband told me about Thanksgiving m

Years ago, my husband told me about Thanksgiving mornings when the men went pheasant hunting while the women gathered in the kitchen to prepare the meal. (Or was it that the men watched football while the women prepared the meal. Either way = 🙄😜😂 )

After escaping this year's Thanksgiving-kitchen-incarceration 😂, I recalled a short personal narrative my husband's Grandpa Ray wrote about pheasant hunting. The narrative is titled "Bad Aim" and is included in Ray's booklet of "Reflections".

"When Goldie was teaching in the country ... she usually drove the car, but I needed it ... one day so I [drove her to work].

"This must have been the open season for shooting pheasants ... I took the old double barreled shot gun along... I saw a bird a short distance from the road and stopped the car. I took good aim and let him have it. The pheasant did not move.

"I crawled thru the fence and proceeded to collect my game bird. I called back to my wife and told her jubilantly, 'I got him.' When I picked him up I found that he was frozen solid and had been dead a long time. The joke was on me and I was not such a good marksman after all."

Speaking of "reflections" - back to my stoic Norwegian husband's Thanksgiving hunting rememberances.

Q. Did you actually hunt on Thanksgiving morning?
A. Hmmmmm....
Q. Who went with you?
A. I remember my dad.... my cousin Craig didn't have a gun...
Q. If Craig was there then was this from the Oftedahl home?
A. I don't remember Grandpa Oftedahl hunting. He was an avid fisherman though.
Q. If you got a pheasant, did youall have it for Thanksgiving?
A. I remember cleaning it and eating it.
Q. On Thanksgiving? (I was trying to wrap my head around meal prep involved)
A. Hmmmm.... a pheasant doesn't take as long to cook as a turkey.

There you have it.🤷‍♀️😂

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Once upon a time I had a friend who, each year, ho

Don't mind us....we are just baking up some storie

Don't mind us....we are just baking up some stories. ❤️

Glad I dated this from-a-magazine recipe (1992). No guess work required. Our son was 3 and our daughter was 6 the first time I made these gingerbread cookies.

This season's baking is being done with our next-gen 4 and 9 year old grands. Lots of little hands at work, lots of sampling, lots of memories made. 🎄👩‍🍳❤️🧑‍🍳❤️🎄

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"Bake up a Story". Could there be a more perfect t

"Bake up a Story". Could there be a more perfect title for a little recipe book that came with my then-vintage cookie press purchased at a garage sale nearly 30 years ago?

"Bake up a Story".

As I prepare foods for the upcoming holidays, it is as if each recipe unlocks a premium subscription to virtual family home movies. As I chop, cook, bake and assemble foods, a cast of characters appear and keep me company.

Each recipe has a story. This year, those stories are more vivid than ever before and you can bet that once the last dish has been dried and put away, I'll be writing those old stories, adding the latest chapter.

This pre-loved cookie press has been well-used in our house. Not only will my kids remember the spritz cookies from when they were little, 5 years ago, I introduced the press and spritz cookies to my grandson. That Thanksgiving was when his parents told us there was going to be another baby - this little guy was going to be a big brother.

This year, there will be 2 grands helping sprinkle, frost, and sample defective cookies. Together we will create a new chapter to an old, old story. Together we will bake up new stories. ❤️👩‍🍳🥧🦃

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