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- Pictures from 2013
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- Pictures from 2015
- 12/20/2014 – Christmas at Home With the Family
- 12/25/2014 – Christmas in New Mexico
- 03/10/2015 – Another Global Warming Blast
- 03/15/2015 – Jan’s Birthday Trip to Sarasota
- 04/04/2015 – Oliver Visit’s and Biking
- 5/3/2015 – Day Trip to Skyline Drive
- 05/14/2015 – A Trip to DC With Oliver’s Class
- 05/24/2015 – Prince William Forest
- 05/24/2015 – Joey & Pauline Visit
- 06/14/2015 – A Day Trip to the Zoo
- Pictures from 2016
- 01/23/2016 – The Snow Storm of the Decade
- 02/06/2016 – Grandson Oliver at Hockey Practice
- 03/18/2016 – Sarasota Trip
- 03/27/2016 – Easter Sunday
- 04/15/2016 – Some older pictures from the deck
- 04/23/2016 – The Yellow Finches Return
- 05/01/2016 – Oliver’s First Holy Communion
- 05/27/2016 – An all toooo short vacation in North Carolina
- 07/09/2016 – Oliver Spends the Weekend and gets a new Bike
- 07/16/2016 – Paul and Oscar Host a Great BBQ Evening
- 11/24/2016 – Thanksgiving Dinner at the Gorman’s
- 11/26/2016 – A Visit to Mount Vernon with Oliver
- 12/2016 – Christmas at Home and in New Mexico
- Pictures from 2017
- Pictures from 2018
- Pictures from 2019
- Pictures from 2020
- 01-01-2020 – The First Snowfall
- 01-01-2020 – A Bird Invasion
- 01-29-2020 – The Local Fox
- 02-28-2020 – Backyard Birds
- 03-07-2020 – A Full Moon
- 04-30-2020 – Critters Captured
- 05-26-2020 – Skyline Drive
- 06-18-2020 – Outer Banks Trip
- 07-04-2020 – Celebrate the 4th
- 06-06-2020 – A Hawk Recap
- 07-31-2020 – Our Neighbors
- 08-22-2020 – Weekend with Oliver and Nora
- 08-25-2020 – A Half-Moon
- 08-28-2020 – Nags Head
- 09-04-2020 – Daytrip to Skyline Drive
- 11-06-2020 – Fall on the Drive
- 10-22-2020 – Critters on the property
- 11-26-2020 – Thanksgiving Dinner
- 11-28-2020 – The Bird Feeder Visitors
- 12-20-2020 – Christmas at Home
- In Memory of Dad
- Documents and Books
- Overview & Notes
- Swann Family Photographs
- World War 2, the 101st Airborne Division And Dad
- Personal Musings
- Book Reviews
- Books – Archeology
- A Tale of Two Caves, Francois Bordes
- Atlantis the Antediluvian World, Ignatius Donnelly
- Before Before Writing, From Counting to Cuniform, Schmandt-Besserat
- Between The Lines, Anthony Aveni
- Pompeii – L. Richardson
- Richard Rudgley, “Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age”
- Royal Tombs of Sipan, Walter Alva
- Schliemann’s Discoveries of the Ancient World: Carl Schuchhardt
- The Arts and Crafts of Travancore, Kramrisch, Poduval and Cousins
- The Coming of Rome – John Wacher
- The Keys of Egypt, Lesley and Roy Adkins
- The Maya Cosmos, Friedel, Schele and Parker
- The Pyramid Of Unas, Alexandre Piankoff
- The Roots of Civilization, Alexander Marshack
- The Rosetta Stone
- The Sumerians, Samuel Noah Kramer
- Books – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Books – Historical
- A Bold Fresh Piece Of Humanity – Bill O’Reilly
- Alger Hiss – Why He Chose Treason, Christina Shelton
- Arthur Of Britain
- Arthurian Chronicles, Wace & Layamon
- Austria-Hungary
- B. Hurmence, “Before Freedom”
- B. Hurmence, “My Folks Don’t Want Me to Talk About Slavery”
- Collier’s New Photographic History Of The World’s War
- Collier’s Photographic History Of The European War
- Cologne No. 10 For Men, Richard Morris
- Death, Dismemberment and Memory, Lyman Johnson
- Divine Dyads, Ancient Civilization in Tibet
- Empires of Time, Anthony Aveni
- Engineering the Pyramids, Dick Parry
- Erra And Ishtum, Kabti-ilani-Marduk
- Frederick Katz, “The Life & Times of Pancho Villa”
- Gisli Sursson’s Sage & The Saga of the People of Eyri, Anonymous
- Haiti, History and the Gods, Joan Dayan
- Hiroshima, John Hersey
- In Alfred’s Days, Paul Creswick
- In Quest of the Great White Gods, Robert F. Marx
- In Search of The Hobo
- Indian Women of Early Mexico
- Into the Valley, John Hersey
- John Paul the Great, Peggy Noonan
- Kenji Kawano, “Warriors, Navajo Code Talkers”
- Known and Unknown, Donald Rumsfeld
- Mediterranean World in Ancient Times
- Memoirs of a Slave Trader, Theodore Canot
- Navajo, “Our Fathers, Our Grandfathers, Our Heroes”
- Nelson Reed, “The Caste War of Yucatan”
- Richard Berber, “The Devil’s Crown”
- Rituals of War, Zainab Bahrani
- Scott Shay, “The History of English”
- Sexuality & Marriage in Colonial Latin America
- Steel Drivin’ Man – Scott Reynolds Nelson
- The Bells of Nagasaki
- The Black Military Experience in the American West
- The Broken Spears
- The Day The World Came To Town, 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland, Jim Defede
- The Face of Pancho Villa, Frederich Katz
- The Folk Culture of Yucatan, Robert Redfield
- The Holy Crown of Hungary, Anthony Endrey
- The Homeless Transient in the Great Depression
- The Mapmakers Wife, Robert Whitaker
- The Shaman’s Coat – Anna Reid
- Tony Horwitz, “A Voyage Long And Strange”
- Uttermost Part of the Earth, E Lucas Bridges
- Waiting For Nothing, Tom Kromer
- When Books Went To Ear, Molly Guptill Manning
- Wolfram Von Eschenbach, “Parzival”
- Works of Art – The Unites States Capitol, Government Printing Office
- 1491, Charles C. Mann
- Books – Political
- A Lie And A Libel – Binjamin W. Segal
- Adios America!, Ann Coulter
- America by Heart, Sarah Palin
- An Appraisal of the Protocols of Zion, John Curtiss
- Come on People, Bill Cosby
- Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, Newt Gingrich
- Fixing Failed States – Ashraf Ghani & Clare Lockhart
- Getting Off Track
- Going Rogue, Sarah Palin
- How to be Right by Greg Gutfeld
- In The Presence Of My Enemies, Tsipon Shuguba
- Mugged, Ann Coulter
- My Grandfather’s Son, Clarence Thomas
- National Suicide, Martin L. Gross
- Out Of Kishineff, W C Stiles
- Plunder and Deceit, Mark Levin
- Rebel In Chief, Fred Barnes
- Slander, Ann Coulter
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- The Case Against Hillery Clinton, Peggy Noonan
- The CIA Memos
- The Silencing, Kirsten Powers
- Things That Matter, Charles Krauthammer
- Tibetan Journey, Alexandra David-Neel
- To Set The Record Straight – Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler
- Triumph Forsaken, Mark Moyar
- W – The Legacy of President George Bush, The Washington Times
- Books – Spiritual
- Gilgamesh, Stephen Mitchell
- Not Cool, Greg Gutfield
- The Alaskan Eskimos, Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24
- Warhammer 40,000
- A Brief Illustrated Guide to Islam
- A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night, The Dalai Lama
- Adam’s Rib, Robert Graves
- Crows and Ravens, Marzluff & Angell
- Forest of Visions – Alex Polari de Alverga
- Goddess Meditations
- John Paul The Great, Peggy Noonan
- Patterns in Comparative Religion , Mircea Eliade
- Patterns In Comparative Religion, Mircae Eliade
- Sacred and Profane Beauty: the Holy in Art, van der Leeun
- Shamanism, Archaic Techniques Of Ecstacy, Mircae Eliade
- Shambhala – The Sacred Path of the Warrior
- St Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury, Lionel Lewis
- The Diamond – Thich Nhat Hahn
- The Lost Books of the Bible, Bell Publishing
- The Myth of the Great Secret, Toby Johnson
- The Myths of the North American Indians, Lewis Spence
- The Other Bible, Willis Barnstone
- The Sacred Fire, B. Z. Goldberg
- The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky
- The Serpent and the Goddess, Mary Condren
- Woman Defamed and Woman Defended
- Crow Planet, Lyanda Lynn Haupt
- The Book of Job, The Anchor Bible
- Books – Technology
- Philatily
- Books – Archeology
- Climate Change
- Some Thoughts on Things Political
- America and the Middle East
- Timeline – The Origin of Israel
- A Journey To Jerusalem
- My Earliest Memories
- The Shining City Upon A Hill, Ronald Reagan
- Computing a Lifetime
- The pussyfication of America
- Stamp Sheet Inventory – Germany
- Book Reviews
- St. Leo Class of 63
- The Tao of La Due
- Born to be Wild – Steppenwolf
- Daughter of Mine – John McDermott
- Hard Working Man – Brooks and Dunn
- I Won’t Back Down – Johnny Cash
- Jesus Take The Wheel – Carrie Underwood
- Positively 4th Street – Bob Dylan
- Small Town Southern Man – Alan Jackson
- Still in Saigon – Charlie Daniels Band
- The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkle
- The Hard Way Every Time – Jim Croce
- Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly – Arron Tippin
- Vietnam Memories
- Decline & Fall