Time, Infinity, and God
Like you, I came into this world without a clue to how the world works. It’s a progressive puzzle that never gets completed. I’ve come to...
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SHERMAN AND ALBERTI HISTORIES
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DANIEL SHERMAN &
MEGAN KUNZE
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The Week I was a Spy
According to Google, an “ancestor” is a person from whom one is descended or who lived in the past. I also asked Google if a person has...
Slaveholders Found in Sherman/Alberti Ancestry With Connections to Samuel Clemens and James Madison
Megan Kunze, my great niece, is an archival archeologist. Insatiably curious, tenacious, (she might say obsessive) she sifts through...
Double Dose of Whiting DNA, chairs, giant pickerels, and maple syrup
Sequestered here at my home in Bella Vista, Arkansas waiting for a vaccine or cure, I’m thinking of the relatives on my father’s side....
"The Rooster Incident"
Uncle Larry, My Dad, and the ‘Rooster’ The ‘rooster story’ came to me piecemeal when I was ten years old, riding with Uncle Larry in his...
The Blochs: Crypto-Jews or Just Goyish?
Second in intrigue to the family stories of Albert Alberti descending from the Italian aristocracy, are the stories surrounding the...
The "Sandbox Explosion" (1914)
My father had five brothers and one sister that have all passed on now. I’ve always wondered what their lives were like living during...
Memories of Brother Dale
When genes were sorted at random my brother Dale got more of mom’s Italian ones. During the gene shuffling I ended up looking more like...
Earl and Lrae and the Human Condition
What’s worrying you Earl? The price of eggs in Chicago, the robot uprising, mortality, turbans, pestilence? Lot’s to worry about in 2020...
The Albertis of Eureka Springs: A False Peak
A “false peak” is a term used in mountaineering. It describes a peak that appears to be the top of the mountain, but upon reaching that...
My Enigmatic Grandfather, The Old Fox
Danny L. Jorgenson has done the most definitive studies of my sixth great grandfather on my father’s side, Alpheus Cutler. At the...
Cassius Sherman Freezes to death in 1873
Cassius Sherman stepped from his cabin door January 7, 1873 and was greeted with a soft wind that held the promise of an early spring. ...
The Last Chapter of "Earl Stories."
“Well, Lrae, while Unkel Dan is staring at the ceiling, why don’t you show me around the neighborhood.” Lrae stood on the front of the...
The Albertis of Eureka Springs: A tale of Insanity and Inheritance - Part 2
If you are a regular reader, and invested in the timeline and history of Albert and Laura, I highly recommend reading Part 1 of this...
Earl's Italian "Alberti Trip" Fund Drive
Earl has a cockamamie idea Goal – Raise one million, six hundred ninety six thousand, seven hundred and eighty nine Italian Lire, and...
Grandpa and Grandma Sherman attend the "The Priests of Pallas" Parade."
Megan’s great Christmas blog, which included Grandma Maude’s story of the uninvited Christmas guest, prompted me to see if I had any more...
Christmas Past: Memories of an Unusual House Guest
I recently spent a few hours listening to my grandmother and her siblings recount stories of their childhoods. Seated around a coffee...
Sharon Lee Sherman (my sweet sister Sherry)
Sharon Lee Sherman was born October 24, 1938, the same week that Orson Welles caused panic in the U.S. when he broadcast a realistic...
Judith Jo Sherman ( Jo for joie de vivre)
Unless you were abandoned and raised by wolves you can probably name the people who influenced you the most in your childhood. Those...
I preferred the playground to the classroom
What happened in Mrs. Hudson’s third grade class might have actually happened in Miss Straw’s second grade class. My memories of...
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