Category Archives: Chester County

Bathing Style 1930’s

While I don’t have an exact date on the photo for this post, I can make a pretty good guess of early  to mid 1930’s based on the folks who are present in the picture. The picture was almost certainly taken at the farm of my mother’s great-uncle Jeff McClelland, as his farm in Newlin […]

The Hungry Trees of Birmingham

This past week, I spent a few hours photographing headstones at Birmingham-Lafayette Cemetery in Chester County and was amused to see that a few more graves were in the process of being consumed (if that isn’t too insensitive of a way to put it) by the very old trees that shade the older sections of […]

My Strange Relatives

When I was in high school and college I always seem to attract the weirdos. If there was a guy that freaked folks out, he always seemed to glom onto me. Maybe it’s a ‘kindred spirit’ sort of deal, but it still seems to work a bit with genealogy connections. While everyone seems to like […]