NOTE: The most amazing part about reading this part of my Grandpa’s diary is that H (my “James”) and I were in Halifax for our honeymoon – and the historian who was showing us around told us about the fire that destroyed most of Halifax. Little did I know that my grandfather had been a […]
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Memories of World War I by Robinson Shepard (my grandpa) – page 3: Where Math wins the day and Grampa joins the Masons
Once in a while, you could get a pass to go to Ayers. There in the basement of the Odd Fellows Hall, were a couple of pool tables. If the soldier, or his father, was an Odd Fellow he could use the tables. By virtue of Father’s being an Odd Fellow I played pool several […]
Memories of World War I by Robinson Shepard (my Grandpa) – page 2
[continuation of my grandfather’s typewritten notes; see previous post for title page and page 1] Some of the artillery, having been drafting, came by and got sore and they wrote to the Boston Herald and they printed it, that while we enlisted, wedid it to escape the draft, and so we could choose the […]
Memories of World War I – by Robinson Shepard (my grandpa): Where he talks about hearing on the wireless the Carpathia pick up survivors of the Titanic
This is the cover page and page one of the typewritten sheets that I received from my uncle: Born: August 23, 1896 in Bangor, Maine (his mother’s home) Enlisted in the Signal Corps, May 10, 1917 Landed in Cardiff, Wales on July 31st having left by Troop Train on July 8th or 9th for […]
I’m Baaaa-ack!!!!!!
OK, so this is where the picture of Jack Nicholson from “The Shining” goes…right? SO, my computer went down quite spectacularly at the end of last year. You know, the end of the year SUCKED, in fact. 2 friends with cancer. Car died. Computer died. Dog needed surgery. Blah blah blah. I’m SO done with […]