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October is Graveyard Month
“We grow up believing graveyards to be haunted. It was almost a rite of passage to test your bravery by visiting the forgotten after midnight. We all thought we saw ghosts as shadows danced from grave to grave by the reflective moonlight…” –Jeff Roberts Read more
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She looks just like me. But who is she?
From a child’s standpoint, I imagined the horror of discovery that the people whom I put my deepest faith in could not keep me from being snatched away from my family and sent to an unimaginable doom Read more
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Why Grandma Cried
Despite Grandma’s pleadings, Tante Rosa believed that she would be able protect the family’s property from the Nazis if she stayed. Read more
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How my Mormon Mom learned she was a Jew
A “hidden child” is a child, often orphaned, whose identity as a Jew was kept a secret as they were sent away to be protected and raised by Christian families, or Christian orphanages, during the Holocaust. Read more
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What Happened to the Skeen Family?
History has not treated polygamous wives kindly–especially those who were not the first wives. Read more
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