Wow! It has been a really busy summer and we have lots of exciting news to share. We have been working hard to get our collections ready to share with you. There has been a lot of scanning – but that is the easy part! Once we have the digital images we […]

Exciting news!


July 13, 1913 We are in a village about two miles from Pau, with a lovely walk through the tall woods thither, and have been well taken care of by an ancien[t] professor and his wife. The first of August, we move into a new little apartment of our own, […]

James Robinson Smith: Scholar, Father, Soldier


This week’s Friday Find comes to us from Dale Plummer, the City Historian of Norwich, Connecticut. Mr. Plummer shares a World War I memorial that once resided on the Chelsea Parade green in Norwich. Mr. Plummer wrote us: [A] series of articles from the Norwich Bulletin [ran] in 1926 about a […]

Friday Find – Norwich’s Forgotten WWI Memorial