Tintype sewn into cardstock. The face is slightly tinted and the military buttons have been painted gold. This is really a most amazin...

My great great grandfather Rode with Custer In the Civil War He was a Wolverine. Cold Harbor, Wilderness He was there at Appa...

The Windermere Real Estate headquarters in Centralia, Washington In the early 20th century this was the home of my great-grandparents, ...

The Grant House, Fort Vancouver National Site, Washington Built in 1849, this structure was around when Capt. Ulysses S. Grant arrived at F...

Grant and Lee under plastic

The parallels between the 1860s and 1960s have long fascinated me. Those of us who grew up in the 1960s sometimes think that particular bubb...