I’m finishing up a few longer posts focused on new discoveries about the Bonniwells and other Mequon-area families and the 1850 federal census. More on that shortly.
Save the dates!
Meanwhile, I’ve received some news about upcoming Jonathan Clark House Museum activities for spring and summer, 2023:
And that’s not all!
Continue readingI hear there’s some sort of big sporting event today. Something called…”football.”
Homer, Winslow, Holiday in Camp – Soldiers Playing “Foot-Ball,” from Harper’s Weekly, July 15, 1865, Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Allen Evarts Foster, B.A. 1906.
It looks kind of wild. I wonder how it’s played?
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[The Bible,] Geneva version, published by Christopher Barker, London, circa 1580-1588. Collection of the Jonathan Clark House, photo credit: Reed Perkins, 2022.
What a year!
Finis. The End. Today is December 31, the last day of a long and eventful 2022. I’m not up to the task of summarizing all the highs and lows of the past year. I’ll leave that to others.
But I thought recalling one special summer day at the Clark House might make a nice valediction at the close of the old year and the beginning of the new. And for me, without question, the best day for the Clark House this year was July 23, 2022, the day we celebrated the generous donation of the historic Bonniwell family Bible and papers.
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