My Roots Run Deep

Stories From My Family History

Canoeing

As a kid one of our favorite things to do was go on canoe trips with family and friends. My parents had several spots we could put in and several we could take out. How long the trip was to take determined the in and out spots on the river. We usually had at...

Trespassers

One of my favorite places to go and walk through nature is some property we own by the river. There used to be a bridge that my children had named the Dangerous Bridge, it was old with holes working their way though the floor so that you could look down as you...

Fixing a Car (Not so conventional)

Watching a neighbor work with a backhoe in our field trying to find an old well (that's a completely different story), I was talking to one of my dad's friends about my dad. All the things I know about fixing cars comes from my dad.... though none of it is...

Meal (the one that shaped me most?)

I have the Becoming journal and have slowly been working on it. I was just faced with the question about the most memorable meal. Of course over time I've had lots of family meals that meant a lot to me, and I can remember getting together with friends and family....

Memories from the Table

After moving we stored things we couldn't use in a shed until we could figure out what to do. One of those things was an antique Duncan Phyfe dining room table from my aunt Kate - my Grandmother's sister. My aunt Kate had been married twice and couldn't have children....

Too Much or Not Enough

Every so often I wonder if I did enough or too much for my kids and I think back to how much my parents did when I was growing up. I frequently think about what my parents didn't do.... but there are things my parents did. When I was in school one of my desires was to...

The Honey Bear

Our families first deer, Bambi, came from a man in Danville who had collected animals. He had a wild array of animals and had decided to get rid of them. I still remember going to his house and waiting in the house seeing his monkey and others while my dad went out to...

Buffalo Escape… Why have Buffalo? (Others escaped too)

Buffalo who have escaped in the next county have been all over the news this week. A family that farms has been raising them for meat and a herd broke the fence. The school bus was driving their route and happened to come upon a herd of buffalo and alerted everyone....

Dog Escapee?

Mar 8, 2017 | activities, Richter | 0 Comments

Dogs visiting our house in Kentucky are pretty rare, but my mother brings hers off and on. My son, who doesn't normally watch dogs stayed with the dogs for the day while we went out for a while. The beagle (who is huge) decided to try to escape! He normally digs...

Morels

Mar 8, 2017 | activities, Richter | 0 Comments

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Bugs

Mar 6, 2017 | activities | 0 Comments

In high school for Biology class part of the class required us to catch bugs. Somehow I still have my bug collection. - It was in somethings from my mother's house and my husband was enthralled by it when I tried to throw it out. Collecting bugs during the 80s...

A trip down memory lane – Champaign, Muncie, and Home

Feb 11, 2017 | Eldridge, Richter | 0 Comments

Driving from Champaign to home past Muncie I decided to click some pictures. The road before Muncie is flat with fields - apparently a new hog farm (huge) is being discussed for the area North of Muncie. Parks Livestock and another group are planning some hog farms....

Immigrated to family!

Jan 9, 2017 | Moretto Negri | 0 Comments

When my great grandfather Moretto immigrated to the US he included on the ship manifest that he was coming to be near a cousin in Westville Illinois. This was right between two censuses, making it hard to be sure that the family would be in the same place at the 1900...

Family Holiday Photos

Dec 28, 2016 | activities, Richter | 0 Comments

Looking through my own family photos I find that many of my family photos were Christmas pictures! Everyone dressed up - and apparently I liked to put the bow on myself sometime during the evening while at my Aunt's house too! I definitely remember those hot wheels,...

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