History enthralls me, especially history that might have involved my relatives. So browsing thorugh sites like the Photograph Archives at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah , and especially The Utah History Encyclopedia is a treat.
For example, I can read about Eliza Roxcy Snow , the acknowledged leader of Mormon pioneer women of the nineteenth century, and a shirttail relative of mine. And, the Castle Gate Mine Disaster which not only created "The Emerging Social Worker and the Distribution of the Castle Gate Relief Fund" -- the first example of social work in the United States -- but also claimed the husband of the woman who raised my orphaned mother, and later me, in my early childhood.

Perhaps it's genetics; or spending the happiest days of my childhood with that loving woman, Emma Noakes Huff; or an aspect of loving history so much, but family history also absorbs my interest. In 1996 I spent hours with my Aunt Bea in Salt Lake City, picking her brain for any family remembrances she could come up with. My daughter then put it on computer and in checking some facts with Uncle Melvin Woodland started a maelstrom of e-mail and snail-mail correspondence of family history and photos .

I have a vintage postcard collection which I haven't added to since the 1970s. Too busy with other things.

I have a definitive talent for gardening which my daughter does not share! The Garden Escape site has a useful hardiness zone locator by zip code as well as an online catalog.
The Time Life Garden Encyclopedia is an excellent resource, too.

This month in History
HyperHistory
Voice of the Shuttle: History page
British Empire Timelines
Archive of primary documents from World War I
Camelot-Group's World History


I love my twin granddaughters and their Pawpaw and my daughter and her husband .