A very quick look around Canongate Kirkyard, with two kids in tow
We ended up here one afternoon last week, when (astonishingly) it wasn't raining, and we'd found ourselves at a loose end on the Royal Mile.
Archive for July, 2012
Jul 14
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Spinster aunts, part two: Ruth Esther Rockwood (1889–1969)
Looking up the school where Ruth taught immediately changed my view of her career: it turns out that Omaha's Technical High in the 1920s was new, large, and very much talked about.
Spinster aunts, part one: Grace Duncan (b.1885)
In 1913 Grace emigrated, unaccompanied, to America, heading straight for the burgeoning industrial paradise of Detroit.
