First of all, mia culpa for being absent the past many months. During the summer in particular I was focused on family health issues (all are fine now) and just didn’t have the bandwidth to research and write. Now that I’m back, I am focusing my energies on my Canadian ancestors once again, in partContinueContinue reading “Changing Course : Canadian History”
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The Icemen of Yonkers, NY
Iceman in New York. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-9cc1-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99) It may seem odd to be writing about ice in the middle of winter since winter was the season coal was delivered, not ice. But winter is the season that ice was cutContinueContinue reading “The Icemen of Yonkers, NY”