Bringing the Past to the Present
One of my goals in developing this blog has been to have a space where I can not only share the results of my research projects, but to also share the hows and whys of how the stories come together. Sharing primary source documents within the narratives fulfills part of this goal, but today’s post…
In my previous post, I shared the story of an enslaved man named Alfred who was most likely sold by the Croghan family of Historic Locust Grove as punishment for an unknown act. This post begins a series on the life of a second man, Alfred Croghan. For the most part, the enslaved people who…
There are several letters in the Croghan family papers that mention an enslaved man named Alfred. These letters span many years and until recently, it was assumed they were all part of the story of one enslaved man. However, as I started cross referencing the Croghan family letters with documents I had found in…
I’ve had a busy few weeks away from my computer! My daughter and I enjoyed a girls only trip to Disney World. My Nikon camera has needed some TLC for a while so I rented a Sony a7iii for the trip which convinced me to make the jump to mirrorless and buy it outright at…
There is something incredibly rewarding about taking multiple things you are passionate about and combining them. While I had been a photographer for a while before my family started volunteering at Historic Locust Grove, it was there where everything meshed together and my love of historically inspired portraiture was born. For me, there’s a bit…
As a docent and a “time ambassador” (more about that in a later post), I go out of my way to let visitors know that the vast majority of the people they interact with when they visit Historic Locust Grove are volunteers. When my family first started volunteering there about eight years ago, there were…
When trying to decide on what to share first, I kept going back to something I posted on my personal Facebook page a few months ago. In the spirit of not filling my friend’s feeds with a great wall of text, I tried to pare my thoughts down as much as possible and it was…