A Family Tapestry

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

A City Girl Moves to the Country

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In order to do the sleuthing necessary to discover the writer of the postcard featured in yesterday’s post , I have to lay out the cast of...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Writing to Lil

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As I mentioned yesterday , among Agnes Tully Stevens ’ personal papers passed along to her grandson were some letters that were actually...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Back to the Papers

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Several months ago, I digressed from my original purpose: to examine and post the details of those “precious papers” stashed away in the d...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Importance of Telling the Story

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It’s time to take another process break—to see where we’ve been and where that leaves us. We just completed telling the story behind fin...
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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Providing for a Feast

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It is fast approaching November 16, 1862, the date of Patrick Flannigan’s ordination to the priesthood. The night prior to this event in...
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Friday, June 8, 2012

An Overnight Interlude

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It must have been with great relief that the struggling threesome— Bishop Baraga , assisted in his weak state by Father Jacker and the s...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Route to Ordination

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Just preceding the notes which caused us some difficulty yesterday regarding Patrick Flannigan and his early career path was an explana...
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It is my contention that, after a lifetime, one of the greatest needs people have is to be remembered. They want to know: have I made a difference? I write because I can't keep for myself the gifts others have entrusted to me. Through what I've already been given--though not forgetting those to whom I must pass this along--from family I receive my heritage; through family I leave a legacy. With family I weave a tapestry. These are my strands.
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