heirlooms

My great-aunt, Ella Hough, was an amazing artist. I know because I have her sketchbook. She was born in 1868 […]

Jane Ruth Elder, my mother, grew up in Tacoma, Washington, during the Depression in the family of a teacher. In

This slide rule belonged to my dad, the engineer. Eldred W. Hough, although he was the oldest son, wasn’t named

Thomas Hough, an enterprising young man, was born in 1844 into a lower-class family in Yorkshire, England, and didn’t like

This is about Granny Jennie’s mother Mary Jane, who dominated the Illinois prairie around her in the late 1800s but

My Granny Jennie, born in 1885, hand-painted this pitcher in an art class in college. She had a college degree,

I am sorting stuff from the attic and basement. I ran across my grandfather’s precision surveying instrument. Later on I

When I was a kid, Granny had a punch bowl in the middle of her dining room table. She was