For more than two hundred years, a wooden chest has survived in my mother’s family. Made in 1823 by a man named John Blackman, it passed quietly from one generation to the next until it eventually came into my mother’s care. Its boards carry the scratches, stains, and softened edges of age, but they also... Continue Reading →
A Chest Full of Clues: Following the Story of William and Martha Blackman
digging our roots 