I have written before about my 6th Great Grandfather, Jean Baptist Gamache, who was one of the first 30 original…
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St. Louis Genealogy
Beef Enchilada Recipe
My maternal Grandfather, Leonard Campbell or Poppy as we called him, lived a state over during my lifetime. It was…
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Phil J. Finazzo’s Seabee WWII Diary: Part 2
My husbands great uncle Phil J. Finazzo penned his personal journey from becoming a WWII Seabee to his experiences with…
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Phil J. Finazzo’s Seabee WWII Diary: Part 1
My husbands great uncle Phil J. Finazzo penned his personal journey from becoming a WWII Seabee to his experiences with…
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Missouri Botanical Garden Land History
The Missouri Botanical Garden was known as Shaw’s Garden in its Gilded Age. It was described in 1899 by the…
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