The Carpenter line of Rockingham County, Virginia, and Carpenter’s Station, Kentucky, gave two fathers to the Revolutionary War — a Swiss-born elder who died in
My family tree reaches George Soule, who crossed on the Mayflower in 1620. That sentence is the most-searched kind of claim in American genealogy, and
A Hempstead County, Arkansas farmer who went to the Confederate war at twenty-nine, came home, and did not survive the peace. He died in March
She has no birth year, no birthplace, no maiden name, and no gravestone I know of. For most of her life the records of Wilkes
X-Ray Eyes. I painted this rainy night in a big city but it doesn’t feel cold to me. maybe it’s because we’re in these dog
A family tree from Wiltshire, Nérac, Roscommon and Saint-Domingue to Essex County, Virginia — and on to Texarkana, Little Rock, Travis County and the Texas
Here’s a motel I painted. You’ve stayed at it before. It’s a traveler’s solution to a traveler’s problem: the motel that’s the same in every
A house my grandfather left us. Luckily it’s just a painting, so I don’t have to worry about the roof or the taxes. So many
After I visited Hemingway’s Key West home, I read his Islands in the Stream- “I love the sea and would not be anywhere else. She
They grow up so fast. Mountain Home turns 15 this month. Ten songs about small Texas towns and the characters who make them interesting. To
Little Mexico on S. 1st Street has been in Austin as long as have been. A great spot for enchiladas, for the Jerry Jeff Walker