My Family Crests: Churchill, Sargent, Lawlor, Ely, Putnam, MacInnes

So looking around on the web as my job description entails, I came across several crest/ Shield websites that had several crests representing many of my family surnames.  Have to thankmy elderly relatives for preserving family history in the US at least going back to my Pilgrim ancestors.  I will probably add to this group [...]

The Codmans of Charlestown and Brookline, 1637-1929

I read an excerpt from the book “The Codmans of Charlestown and Brookline, 1637-1929” by Cora Codman Wolcott. This essay was in a small bound book called “On the One Hundredth Anniversary of Codman Point”  This is not accomplished through any direct line of reasoning or persuasion but her remarks about visitors to the summer [...]

Silent Hostility

I walked into the house and found an unusual and disquieting silence. There should have been any number of sounds in a house that was supposedly full of people. The courtyard was empty and so was the kitchen. I walked around the house before depositing my belonging in the room and the house was also [...]