(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) The Antebellum "Persac Map" of 1858 Can you love history? Am I exaggerating when I say, I do? I especially enjoy learning about history and seeing how events connect with one another. If you’re my age, you can remember traveling cross-country by automobile with your parents (or parent) on interstate highways. When we stopped for gasoline at service stations, we used the bathroom, and sometimes we’d pick up … [Read more...] about The Antebellum “Persac Map” of 1858
Grandfather Collins
In Search of “Grandfather” Collins: Kilkenny to New Orleans
(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) In Search of "Grandfather" Collins: Kilkenny to New Orleans Charles C. Collins, also known as “Charlie,” (1845-1906) was of Irish ancestry, his grandfather having immigrated from Ireland to Louisiana before the War of 1812.[1] Jody Johnson Buck on horseback pdf Jody Johnson Buck, great-great-granddaughter of Charlie, has identified the county of Kilkenny, Ireland, as the birthplace of her Collins … [Read more...] about In Search of “Grandfather” Collins: Kilkenny to New Orleans
