by amanita | May 19, 2012 | Brown Family, Genealogy, Kinsley Family, Nelson Family, Travel
We are on a balanced schedule in our school district now. While I love having an extended Spring and Fall Break, I must say that I really do desire the time to actually be lazy in the summer. We have just over a month and a half of summer break. And while I should...
by amanita | Jan 21, 2012 | Genealogy, Kinsley Family, Travel
On our last morning in Scranton I was ready to really use that Google Map I had created for the trip. On the map I included every address from my ancestors that I could find. Usually you can find addresses in cities for census records from 1900 and later. I was...
by amanita | Jan 4, 2012 | Genealogy, Kinsley Family, Travel
We didn’t stay at the train station hotel our entire trip. In fact, we were so very lucky to have some condo timeshare points donated to us by my sister! She has a condo through Wyndham and some leftover points she would not be using, as she had just given...
by amanita | Jan 3, 2012 | Genealogy, Kinsley Family, Travel
I have gotten a ton of hits on my site recently and when I check the search terms that people are using to find me a majority of them involve “Scranton lace” somehow. I thought that something must be causing this. When I searched the web about it, I...
by amanita | Jan 3, 2012 | Genealogy, Kinsley Family, Travel
We got into Scranton late. I was tormented during the entire drive by deer threatening to run across the road. I mean it. The entire drive. They were everywhere, standing three feet from the road, taunting me. And then there were the dead ones…everywhere. ...
by amanita | Dec 26, 2011 | Travel
I had an amazing two-week fall break. Around these parts fall is kind of awesome. Honestly, I hate to say that because I despise winter with absolutely everything in me, and fall is really just PRE-winter. But early fall is generally very pretty and very...
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