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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Postmarked 64 Years Ago Today

My parents had been married almost two years when they took this trip from Detroit to visit my dad's family in North Dakota. They didn't have any kids yet, but I was born nine months later.
Posted by T.K. at 8:52 AM
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Cheryl said...

Wait a minute - that can't be right. This was postmarked 64 years ago and you couldn't have been born 9 months later - you are only 35. What gives?

November 12, 2011 2:35 PM
T.K. said...

Um... remember back in the '60s, the New Math? And then in 1973 the book came out, "Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math." Well, somewhere in between the rise and the fall of the New Math, a small adjustment was made in the space-time continuum. New Math emphasized mathematical structure through abstract concepts like set theory. Set theory was, I'm pretty sure, where you get to set your age using something other than base 10. It all has to do with algebraic inequalities, symbolic logic, and Boolean algebra, Cheryl. Richard Feynman said, "In the "new" mathematics, then, first there must be freedom of thought; second, we do not want to teach just words; and third, subjects should not be introduced without explaining the purpose or reason, or without giving any way in which the material could be really used to discover something interesting." See? That pretty much explains it.

November 13, 2011 8:33 AM

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Our Family in Books: A Bibliography

  • My Ancestors in Books (a library of resources and notes pertaining to Reverend Samuel Stone, Major General Robert Sedgwick, Elder John Crandall, and other early Americans in the forest where my family tree was grown)
  • The Zahnisers: A History of the Family in America by Kate M. Zahniser and Charles Reed Zahniser (Mercer, Pa. 1906)
  • History of St. James Lutheran Church [full title: A little of this and a little of that in the 141 year (1861-2002) History of St. James Lutheran Church, Reynolds Indiana] by Harold B. Dodge, published at Reynolds, Indiana, 2002; 170 pages.
  • Lisbon, North Dakota 1880-2005 Quasuicentennial, published at Lisbon, North Dakota in 2005; 391 pages.
  • The Paschen and Redd Families of Cass County, Indiana by Alfred Paschen, c. 2005 (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD); 322 pages.
  • Sheldon Community History: Sheldon Centennial 1881-1981, published at Sheldon, North Dakota in 1981; 376 pages.
  • Sheldon, North Dakota 1881-2006 - 125th Anniversary: The Queen of the Prairie, published at Sheldon, North Dakota in 2006; 498 pages.
  • A Standard History of White County, Indiana, written under the supervision of W.H. Hamelle, c. 1915 (The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York).
  • The Roots of Coventry, Connecticut by Betty Brook Messier and Janet Sutherland Aronson, c. 1987 (Coventry 275th Anniversary Committee, Coventry, CT); 206 pages.
  • "Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and His Descendants" by John Cortland Crandall; New Woodstock, New York, 1949; 797 pages.
  • "The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island." Nellie (Willard) Johnson, Pd.B.: H & L Creations, LLC.
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