Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A one-eyed grandparent

Seventy years ago, Stan's Uncle Bayard Brown wrote to his Pop to ask him about the family tree -- a "review of the antecedents," if you will. So Paul Brown dutifully sat down and wrote a letter, carefully filling in a son on his family pedigree. Here's a copy of that letter, which is now preserved in the relics section of our Shakopee basement. If you click and zoom in on it, you can follow Stan's Grandfather's connections to the Lincoln-Douglas debates, pioneers, the Mayflower, the Revolutionary War and a one-eyed grandparent. Something to do on another rainy day.