L.M. Montgomery wrote a passage in Anne of the Island (1915) describing letters from years past, which were written by her parents and which Anne was reading, “The sweetness of forgotten things clung to them – the far-off, fond imaginings of those long-dead lovers”. I feel much the same
Apparently the difference between a shell and a bomb, is that one is shot from a platform (ground or ship, etc) and the other is dropped from the air or, in some cases left to be exploded by a timer. I don’t really need to know the exact differences to
I believe my maternal grandparents, Olga and Paul Woronoff, never saw the revolution coming, and they certainly didn’t think the turmoil, violence and bloodshed would last. Coming closely on the heels of World War I, it must have been a time of such uncertainty but even so, in their minds,
Today, January 11th, was my grandfather’s birthday. Or was it? My grandfather, Pavel Voronov (Paul Woronoff) was born on December 29, 1886, or was he? I have official documents which state both dates as his birthday. This can be very confusing for a family historian if one doesn’t know that
First published in 1932, my grandmother dedicated her memoir, Upheaval to her daughter and only child, Tatiana, who was also my mother. After at least six years of research, the 2nd edition of Upheaval will be launched in only a few days time, on October 15 at 7pm AEDT, please
Booth Tarkington, who twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1919 and 1922, wrote the Introduction to the original edition of my grandmother’s memoir, Upheaval. Upheaval was originally published in 1932, some four years after my grandparents migrated to America. I often wondered how it was that my grandmother