history

My mother, Dorothy Louise Blankenship Aldridge Green on June 16, 1912 in White Church, KS to George Washington and Alma Sophia (Brotherson) Blankenship. She died at 102 years old on November 26, 2014. Her mother died when mom was 6 years old. My one year old mom in 1913 with her older sisters When she was 14, her stepmother and father forced her to leave home and make it on her own. She ultimately lived with another family until she married my father. She had 8 children, and had a very difficu

Here is a topic for which my blog title seems most appropriate, “Memory and Change.” How so much has changed over my lifetime—and how hard it is to remember. The acceleration of those changes has increasingly been most difficult to assimilate. And it does seem that one’s ability to adjust to change decreases as one ages. I am 86 years old, and even that objective fact is difficult to comprehend. What happened to me in these last 86 years? Where did they go? What did I do? How did the world chang