When man makes a major technological leap the rapid innovation that follows is astounding. Consider where we have come in personal...

Early Spring 1967 The 1402 pulls into Concord at 9:05 AM. Right on time. The train slows to a stop. A man on the train lowers his...

Two parents. Four grandparents. Eight great grandparents. My great grandparents include Harry Butcher, Violet Mitchell, Frank Shipp, and...

A hot day’s drive to the Dude Ranch yields to respite in the shade of Ponderosa pines. Having helped my parents with their bags I sit...

December 11, 1941 The captain sits with half a raw potato in one hand, a small slice of lemon in the other. How quickly fortunes change....

In 1923 twin brothers, Eugene and Ed Hotchkiss and their friend Edgar Gordon went on a summer’s long road trip in an old Chevrolet. They...

Alice sits on the hard wooden bench seat and looks out the train’s window. Edith, now four, stands in front of Alice and takes in the...

Camp Sumter, better known as the Andersonville Prison, was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp constructed toward the end of the Civil War....

In the 1700’s the Sauk Trail extended across a broad stretch of land that would later be called the state of Michigan. If Michigan’s...

The following is an extract from Charlotte Turgeon’s draft biography of her father, Frederic Snyder. Like other Snapshots, this one is...

“Oh wow, these seats are great!” Casey’s right, we do have great seats. The first row of an upper deck along the first base line, home...

Christmas Eve - 1990 Charlotte sits at the head of the table in the dining room of her condominium unit in Amherst, Massachusetts. In her...

Civil War Diary Note: The diary entries below are Nathan Parmater’s and have not been edited. Entries in (parentheses) are his while...

Hawaiian Missionary 1858. Dwight Baldwin sits on the porch of his home at 120 Dickinson Street in Lahaina, near the corner of Front...

Plimouth Plantation, Plymouth MA On a blue-sky day in June, Karen and I step back in time nearly 400 years visiting the pilgrims at...

He wades into the gentle surf to his waist holding the rod above the water as waves pass. The sand is firm beneath his bare feet and the...

In the late 1950’s the artist Georgia O’Keeffe travelled around the world and somewhere along the way sat next to a young woman on a bus....

October 1973 “Joe , I’m attacking Iceland from Greenland. I come to liberate Europe” Joe looks down and the game board and then at David....

Three Professors Change how Chemistry is Taught Tamara, Tam to her friends, sits on a stool in her organic chemistry lab. Other students...

Albion College Defeats Notre Dame University Frank Shipp (1872-1951) attended Albion College in Albion Michigan in the 1890’s. The...