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.