Over the last several months, a group of musicians have been practicing in order to re-establish the group that we knew as the Royal Rubes. ...
In the summer of 1833, John and Jean Hunter Hopkin and their three children, along with William and Margaret Gray Robertson and their two children...
The story of the Cochrane (pronounced “Coke-run”) families is really the story of nine families. Patriarch, David Cochrane and wife Catherine Rattray Cochrane and eight...
On Saturday June 5th, Susan Stable Militello and her husband came to the museum. Susan was seeking information on her grandfather, Frank Wood Ring. Frank...
On June 12, 1883, Henry Dexter Bowman and brother-in-law, Charles R. Ferguson, purchased the F. E. Fatin and Son business – drugs, medicines, books, and...
John Marshall Shoemaker, “Jack” to his friends, died on Saturday, November 14, 2020 at the age of 93 in Greenville, Michigan. Jack was born on...
On March 28, 2021 we lost another of our lifetime members – Denver William Leinonen. He was born on July 26, 1932 at the Finnish...
I completed the book Sunday. November 22th. The next day I tried to upload the book’s text to the publisher’s website but couldn’t get it...
When I was in sixth grade (1961-1962), my primary teacher was Mrs. Judy Isaacson. One period each day, she taught Home Ec. Mr. George Wilson would come from the high school to cover that period. I do not remember whether he taught math or science.
One day, Mr. Wilson was late getting to the classroom from the high school. As he was coming down the hallway, he could hear our class. We were being quite loud.
I sat down today to write a story about the First Congregational Church but my thoughts kept drifting to my father who died one year ago today – December 1, 2019. So I decided to write down one of the stories he told me about his time in the Army during World War II.
