March in Minnesota is still winter. My younger sister Melanie and I were born and raised in this state and live in the Twin Cities, as have our parents. Our…
Debra StoneJanuary 4, 2024
Foundational to Coming To The Table is the belief in the healing power of story-telling, including the sharing of stories that are difficult and have been obscured from our histories.…
BitterSweet EditorsNovember 5, 2023
"I wish she could have looked down through the years and generations to see the family that exists today because of her." This an additional post in our series that…
Patricia LowtherOctober 8, 2023
"DNA doesn’t lie," genealogist Charlotte Bocage explains her essay in The Searcher (Summer 2003, Vol 60, No 3, pp. 63-65, a publication of the Southern California Genealogical Society). "I am…
Charlotte BocageSeptember 8, 2023
We are happy to bring you the story of Jesse Lee, a veteran of the 1st Virginia Cavalry and the 2nd great-grandfather of LeRoy G. Potts. LeRoy wrote about his…
BitterSweet EditorsJuly 21, 2023
Editor Update, August 2023: The original title for this post was "Uncovering New Bern's Bloodless Coup of 1898" -- and the word "bloodless" has now been removed, after careful consideration…
Lee GuionJune 30, 2023
Marion Tango read this powerful original poem at the 2023 Coming to the Table National Gathering. Watch and listen here to Marion Why I Don’t Use the n-word It’s…
BitterSweet EditorsJune 21, 2023
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