Becoming American Is Now Available For Purchase Peg and Jon DeStefano have recently completed their first book collaboration. Becoming American has been a labor of love for the couple as they wanted their children to know their ancestors. This book covers four centuries of the  Knowles’ family experience in America which began in the early 1600s. This side of the […]

 At home we lived the “simple life,” With “pint and praties” for the dinner. And chicken stew on Sundays, too, (With nary a bit of chicken in her). But when you “find” some rabbits in The landlord’s ground (a poacher’s trick)    It’s wise to call them something else— And so we called our rabbit “chick.” You take and cut […]

The History of Women’s History Month     Every year March is designated Women’s History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history.  Did you Know? Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week?  Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma […]

By Roy Nuhn    Getting the vote had been a long, hard and frustrating fight for the ladies.  By 1890, after several bitter decades of dissension, lack of a cohesive strategy, and often near-anarchy in their own ranks, the woman’s suffrage movement took a new direction. This was an agonizingly slow, state-by-state approach to gaining the vote.  But as a […]