Jing capture for Pomeroy Farms

Here is the URL for a Jing Capture of the Pomeroy Farms website. When I think of herb and garden festivals, I also think about the wonderful fragrances of lavender and chamomile. Now if someone could just invent a way to capper scent and transmit that digitally....

http://screencast.com/t/sW0Etq7UTJ6

Living History Sites

One of our families favorite things to do on vacation is visit living history sites. Actually, I would drag them all to any civil was battlefield, historical marker, or anything that is remotely related to a heritage site. But the hubby and the kids would probably mutiny on me. So we compromise and go to places like Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, where I can spend a fortune on books and find new areas of historical obsession and my kids can watch oxen turn a massive stone wheel to press apples for cider. Here are a couple interesting sites to check on for this type of thing:

Pomeroy Farms in SW Washington is a great place to get the old-fashioned farm feeling. www.pomeroyfarm.org

Another site I found with links to living history destinations: www.livinghistorysites.com.

Genea-Musings

While roaming around the vast world of blogs out there, I found Genea-Musings, http://www.geneamusings.com/. It's a great collection of genealogy related postings, links, humor, and helpful insights on tech tools. It's creator, Randy Seaver, has developed an impressive list of links to other genealogy sites, so this is a great jumping off point for many genealogy searches.

Getting Started

After spending most of the week looking at blogs, following links, and having a wonderful time getting lost in a maze of information, I suppose it's now time to settle down and actually add content to my own blog. A tidbit about the title, "Beyond the Dust": my daughter thinks it may be a reference to the dust on my desk, but no, that isn't it. So much of what I love to study and research tends to be information about people and events that have been all but forgotten. I truly believe that if we "don't study history, we are condemned to repeat it." Although we think of this in terms of the history of nations and cultures, it is also true of individual lives. The lives of ordinary people have wonderful lessons and nuggets of wisdom for us, and some of them are entertaining as well as inspiring. Much of this blog will focus on following that social history of which we are all a part.