Clark House Historian is about to begin its tenth year of investigating, interpreting and sharing the stories of the Clarks, their relatives, neighbors, friends, and the world in which they lived. With that in mind, I’ve been looking through the blog, and thinking about making a few, useful updates to the site. Chief among these would be a decent, searchable index to all those posts.

(Still) “under construction“…

From our first post in late-March, 2016, through early March, 2026, I’ve researched, written and published almost 500 Clark House Historian posts comprising about a half-million words, and illustrated with hundreds of historic maps, photographs, lithographs and other images. That’s a lot of information to organize and search.

So even though the blog has a decent SEARCH BY KEYWORDS(s) function, and each post is kind-of, sort-of indexed with SEARCH BY CATEGORY labels and SEARCH BY TAGS (mostly tagged by date or decade), it has become more difficult to find specific information and archived CHH source materials than I’d prefer. So in 2021 I started indexing the blog. Unfortunately, in the five (!) years since 2021 there’s been a long pause in indexing because, frankly, I don’t much care for indexing.

What I really need is an intelligent team of trained, experienced and eagle-eyed indexers, like these women at the catalog cards processing department of the Library of Congress in the late 1910s.

Harris & Ewing, photographer. Librarians working with catalog cards in the Processing Department of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [detail]. [Between 1917 and 1920?]. Library of Congress.

Unfortunately, I can’t afford an intelligent team of trained, experienced, and detail-oriented indexers like those women at the Library of Congress in the late 1910s. So—alas!—it’s up to me to get the indexing project moving again, bit by bit. (But, as my astute, dear father used to say, “that’s a fine speech, son…” so we’ll see.)

Anyway, if you’ve looked through the blog’s INDEX, tried the SEARCH BY KEYWORD function, and you’ve sorted by CATEGORIES, and still can’t find the CHH post, image, or other information that you’re looking for, please let me know via the blog’s CONTACT form and I’ll do my best to help.

And if you’d like to look at the most recent additions to the CHH INDEX, click “Read More” or “Continue reading” for the details…

NEWLY INDEXED

Here’s the list of newly indexed CHH names and subjects, as of March 8, 2026. Click the links to open a new window and go directly to the relevant post.

CABINS & SHANTIES
Log cabin, “A first settlement” 1840 (image) Searching for JMC’s roots: Daily life in the Stanstead area, 1784-1817
Shanties, Civil War, winter (images), “Dear Santa,”

FUN & GAMES
Football (American), (images) 1860s-1880s The Big Game
Hunting, fishing, bowling, skating, etc. (images), What did you do on Sunday?
Ice fishing (image), Bitter Cold? Sounds like fun!
Ice skating (image), Winter fun, 1868
Sabbath, no fun or games on the, (images), What did you do on Sunday?
Singing, New Year’s glee tradition, Hail, Smiling morn! – 2022 edition
Sleigh riding (image), Bitter Cold? Sounds like fun!
Sleigh riding (image), “Dashing through the snow…”
Sleigh riding (image), Snow!
Sleigh riding, accidents, downed trees, stumps in snow (image), Stuff Happens – on a sleigh ride!

NATIVE AMERICANS
Agriculture and, 1836: Astounding Produce News!
American Revolution and, The American Revolution: are you watching?
Canoes, inland river travel, and, Paddling upstream…
Census, federal and, Census Records for the In-Between Years: 1842
Chewing “gum” and, RBOH: Chewing Gum
Disease, epidemics and, “Distressing sickness” – 1811, Lower Canada, edition
JCH “Mother Earth” 2022 lectures, part 1, on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/live/6ugPFAwzXWs?si=azkg4FHsop-Cs2JN
JCH “Mother Earth” 2022 lectures, part 2, on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/live/odbb6pkBUf8?si=AxYz-Jjyz-fzagC7
JCH “Mother Earth” 2022 lectures, part 3, on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/live/CnZePqlDPkU?si=_GKFhN5gdKUMi14W
Frémont, John C. and, Monday: Map Day! – To the gold fields, 1849 & ’50
Map, Green Bay area, Michigan Territory, 1827, Monday: Map Day! – Ft. Howard & Green Bay, 1827
Map, Ouisconsin [Wisconsin], 1836, place names and, Monday: Map Day! – One more (updated) look at Ouisconsin Territory, 1836
Map, United States, 1825, westward expansion, Monday: Map Day! – The United States of North America, 1825
Métis, U.S. government and, I’ve been busy…at the Portage! (part 1)
Métis, U.S. government and, I’ve been busy…at the Portage! (part 2)
Settlers, early CHH area and, Meet Mary’s sister: Elizabeth Turck Maxon (1828-1913)
Trails become roads, The county’s earliest federal roads (plural)
U.S. army and, How’d they get here? Detroit to Ft. Howard, 1834 (part 1)
U.S. army and, How’d they get here? Detroit to Ft. Howard, 1834 (part 2)
U.S. government and, Presidents’ Day, 1844

SEASONS (see also WEATHER)
Fall, see also HARVEST
Fall, apples, historic varieties (images), Tasting history
Fall, cider making (image), Autumn in New England: Cider Making
Fall, football (American), (images) 1860s-1880s The Big Game
Fall, harvest time, JCH stone barn (image) 1980s Harvest Time
Fall, husking (image), Autumn chores: Husking
Fall, ox team crossing river, sycamores (image), 1841, Autumn in “the West” – 1841
Fall, pictorial essay for Labor Day(images) Labor Day – a photo essay
Fall, Stanstead area (image), 1840-1880, Searching for JMC’s roots: Lake Memphremagog
Spring, plow and plowing (image) 1853, Preparing for planting
Winter, cabins and shanties, Civil War (images), “Dear Santa,”
Winter, Cedarburg covered bridge in (image), Winter in Ozaukee County
Winter, farmers’ work in offseason (images), Labor Day – a photo essay
Winter, farmers work in offseason (image), Organizing…
Winter, ice fishing, sleighing (image), Bitter Cold? Sounds like fun!
Winter, ruffled grouse in (image), Wintertime
Winter, “Intensely Cold Weather”
Winter, Shoveling out – and other winter chores
Winter, snow & sleighriding (image), Snow!

WEATHER (see also SEASONS)
Prediction? fragment from an almanac? (image), Help the Historian: Mysterious (Bible?) Fragment
Summer, tornado (“hurricane”), Ozaukee Co., 1857: Disaster
Winter, cold (image), Bitter Cold? Sounds like fun!
Winter, cold (image), “Intensely Cold Weather”
Winter, snow (image), “Dashing through the snow…”
Winter, snow (image), Shoveling out – and other winter chores
Winter, snow & sleighriding (image), Snow!

The fine print

Note: In the CHH Index I have not cross-indexed all the names mentioned in each blog post. if you are looking for information on a specific individual or family, I suggest you start by using the blog’s SEARCH BY KEYWORD function and search for that person’s surname, first name + surname, and first- and/or middle-initials (omit periods) + surname. Please CONTACT me if you need help finding any particular person or other info.

The Index was last updated March 8, 2026, and includes these new entries. Additions to the index are in progress and organized in a single alphabetical list by surname or subject. In the case of duplicate/re-printed posts, I have usually indexed only the most-recent, revised and up-to-date version of that post. (If you seek the original version(s), they are usually linked to in the revised posts.)

To view the entire (in-progress) INDEX, just click the link.

Thanks for reading, and happy searching! I’ll be back soon with more Clark House history.