PPP – Adolph’s Saw I love tools and working with my hands. Did this kind of work professionally for the first decade and a half of my post-high school life and my late-in-life return to school for a college degree. On the walls and in the cabinets of my garage are an assortment of tools […]
PPP – Bertha and Christian Adolph Matthiensen – Part 2 California Note regarding names and ages: As mentioned in previous posts, my Dad (Gerald Robert McNamara) and his Dad (Gerald Anthony McNamara) shared the same first name. Friends and family had always known Gerald Anthony McNamara as “Mac”. Mac will always be Mac in these […]
Hello all, This is a reissue of my Father’s Day PPP from 2020. Here are a few photos of dads with kids and grandkids. Hope you enjoy it! 1937 – Frank Kerbrat with his boys; Yves, Adrian, Art, and Bern. A couple of photos of my Dad, Gerald Robert McNamara, with his dad, Gerald […]
Note: this is a reissue/rewrite of my Mother’s Day PPP from 2020. Happy Mother’s Day Friday Everyone, Last year an Allen’s Hummingbird built a nest in our backyard pittosporum. Her two eggs hatched and the young successfully fledged and left the nest. That very same nest is again occupied this year. She (perhaps the same […]
This is a reissue of the Easter PPP sent out on April 10, 2020. From the house number in the background, this is probably Mac and Hilda’s place at 274 S Roxford Drive in Beverly Hills, which would make the year either 1938 or 1939. Left to right: Adolph Matthiensen, with Bertha Matthiensen partially hidden […]
Introduction Historical Note: Iowa became a state on December 28, 1846. Recently, I just happened to watch the 1941 movie “Western Union”. The plot, as the title suggests, has its characters working for Western Union in 1861, making the final link of the transcontinental telegraph lines from Omaha, Nebraska (just across the river from Council […]
NOTE: This PPP was first sent out through my email chain on April 17, 2020. For my Journal inaugural, I am reissuing this PPP, with a few edits, additions, and current dates. I selected this PPP because we are coming up on another Easter, which is a time of rebirth and renewal. It is a […]
