Weird and wonderful history facts — sometimes tied to genealogy, sometimes just delightful rabbit holes worth spiraling into.
Weddings have always been emotional. Exciting. Stressful. Expensive. And apparently? Historically full of an alarming number of rules designed to avoid bad luck. Because if our ancestors were getting married,…
There was a time when “stopping by” someone’s house… Was not casual. Was not spontaneous. And was definitely not something you did without checking a very specific set of rules…
There was a time when the most reliable source of neighborhood news… Wasn’t a newspaper, a phone call, not even a conversation. It was a clothesline. Specifically, what was hanging…