Monday, August 24, 2009

history detectives

Our first serious genealogy stop on our summer vacation was Danbury, CT, where we are looking into our Nichols/Averill/Starr/etc. roots. My daughter can't read yet, but she knows her letters, so was a more than able advance scout as we looked for names in the vastness of Wooster Cemetery...
...detail of Smith/Nichols monument
...relief sculpture on Starr Hoyt Nichols's monument
...meditation moment at Martha Nichols Kellogg's monument