Some things I read to try to keep the hope alive:

The Enthusiast by Brad Montague

Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson 

Rep. Hilary Scholten on BlueSky (this is my house representative; I encourage you to find your own)

The 1619 Project

Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
My daughter graduated from the University of Michigan yesterday with her master’s degree in Biological Chemistry. I believe she is the first person in her direct line of descent to obtain an advanced college degree. I graduated from the University of Michigan in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, certified to teach secondary grades 7-12 in mathematics and French. During my five years of teaching, I attended Grand Valley State University and obtained 21 credits toward my master’s degree in education, but after my first child was born, I never went back to finish the degree – but I never intended to and was only taking classes to keep my certificate current. My mom graduated from high school in 1970 and never went to college. My dad holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from General Motors Institute, now Kettering University. Three of my four grandparents graduated from high school (my grandma Nedra was forced to quit high school during the depression to support ...
Read more
Image
Ozora Ann (Bunger) Clay , with her fancy show chickens Ozora Ann Bunger, my 2 nd   great-grandmother, was born in 1873 in Ohio, the second child and eldest daughter of William and Lydia (Michael) Bunger. William, a veteran of the Civil War, and Lydia were married in 1868 in Ohio, and in 1870 they were living near El Dorado in Monroe Township, Preble County, Ohio, where William was employed as a farm hand. When the census was taken in 1880, Ozora was living with her parents and three siblings in Butler Township, Darke County, Ohio. At that time William reported he was a farmer. Still living in Butler Township, Darke County, Ohio when the census was taken in 1890, William reported that he had served with Company L of the 12 th   Indiana Cavalry during the Civil War. Because of a fire in the United States Archives, only the veterans’ schedule of the 1890 census survives, and so we cannot know what members of William’s family were living with him then. Ozora was married in 1893, w...
Read more
Image
Sarah Elizabeth (Layman) Glander with her family about 1898 from left: daughter Mary Savilla, husband John Henry, son John Albertus, Sarah herself holding son Andrew Glen, daughter Della Dora Sarah Elizabeth Layman, my 2 nd   great-grandmother, was born in 1861 in Ohio, the eldest child of John and Savilla (Wells) Layman. She was born just over twelve months after her parents were married, in Union County, northwest of Columbus in central Ohio. The prior year when the 1860 census was enumerated, John and Savilla were living in Millcreek Township, Union County, Ohio, near the town of Watkins. John was a farmer. In 1870, Sarah, her three younger sisters and her parents were living in Owl Creek Township, Woodson County, Kansas near Neosho Falls. John was still farming and reported his land was worth $500. Sarah was married in 1880, when she was nineteen years old, to John Henry Glander (aged twenty-four), also an Ohio native, in Miami County, Ohio. Just a few months later when the 188...
Read more