Edith Renfrow Smith’s 110 years of living reflects gratitude and determination. Her humble character is revealed through her joyous voice and her positive example of living. Edith Smith at 107…
Antoinette BroussardAugust 20, 2024
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
On October 25, 2023 Dionne Ford, author of the memoir Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing (2023), answered questions from participants of the…
BitterSweet EditorsNovember 29, 2023
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
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