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December 24, 2019 / Stephen

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas! May we celebrate with togetherness, peace and love! God bless!

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The study of history is the forensic investigation of human events. History isn’t always rosy, it’s the whole spectrum of the human experience, and that includes acknowledging those moments when humans and their cultures, nations do not live up to their professed values, when their actions are truly evil and do not elevate the human family. A nation’s professed values of life, liberty and equality are something meant to aspire towards. Being a citizen means striving for those values.

Have a jazzy, swinging Happy 4th of July! 🎇🇺🇸

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. […] And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." — from Declaration of Independence

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.” — 2nd Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln (1865)

Humbled and heartened to see this photograph of mine on digital exhibit on July 2. This photograph was taken at Tom’s Creek in Bushkill, Pennsylvania and hopefully stirs interest in the immediate area of Tom’s Creek and my current work researching the old village of Egypt Mills. A picture that captures two of my passions—nature and history.

My daughter finished this academic school year making the Honor Roll through all four quarters of her ninth grade year. Her top grades were in Living Environment and Global Studies. As a history educator, this is not surprising to me as some (certainly not all) of my best history students thought of themselves as being more STEM inclined. History is, in fact, a science; it is the forensic study of the human experience. Something to strongly considered as we weigh our opinions without weighing our knowledge.

Sunset at Gettysburg Battlefield • 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument • Canon at the Copse of Trees • The Pennsylvania Monument • The Vermont Monument

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The William Nyce House. Egypt Mills, Pennsylvania.

I can imagine how hard it must be to lose your infant child. My third-great-grandparents John Teel Titman (1821-1895) and Elmira Titman (née Counterman) lost an infant son of just 7 days old in November of 1865. I’m cleaning up the baby’s headstone using D2 and water.

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