Fred Gartz, silhouette created at Riverview Amusement Park, summer 1942 The Summer of ’42 was one of bliss for Fred and Lil. They went to Chicago’s iconic amusement park, Riverview and had several profile silhouettes cut out. These [...]
The Armchair Genealogist Lynn Palermo over at The Armchair Genealogist is sponsoring the second annual Family History Writing Challenge. Today Lynn has been kind enough to invite me to be a guest blogger on her site. Given the vast amount [...]
Just one week after Fred’s May 10, 1942, letter to his mother, detailing the trauma of his dismissal from the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant in La Porte, Indiana,(see War & Bigotry & following three posts) he was back in Chicago. Perhaps his raw [...]
Thanks to Jasia, at Creative Gene for once again hosting the annual I-Gene awards, an opportunity for the genealogy blogging community to look back over the past year and salute each other’s best posts in five categories. Here are my [...]
North Ave. Beach 8/27/1941 Fred (my dad) sent this amusing “scientific analysis” of two “aquatic species,” probably based on a photo (he says “illustration” but I think that’s part of the joke) that was enclosed with the letter. [...]