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Recent Posts:

  • John Kruttschnitt Played a Practical Joke at His Sister’s Wedding Reception
  • Roadblock Ahead: Tracing the Boyce Line Back to West Virginia
  • Charting My Jewish Roots Along a Misleading Path
  • Little to Nothing Remains of Philip Benjamin’s Time in Charleston
  • Major Life Events Probably Forced Simmers Family Moves
  • Was King Tut’s Curse the Real Cause of W.B. Thompson’s Demise?
  • No Surprise: Isaie Gingras Was Buried in a Catholic Cemetery
  • Discovered: The Gingras Ancestral Lands
  • Hugh Simmers: Walking in his Cinematic Footsteps
  • Discovered: Gingras Home in St. Johnsbury
  • J.E. Thompson Jr. Tells a Few Tales About His Storied Life
  • Anyone for Polo? J.E. Thompson Wanted Phoenicians To Have a Place to Play
  • Old Pennsylvania Grist Mill Was Probably Not in the Family
  • Derelict Motel Occupies the Hill Major J.R. Boyce Tried to Take
  • Search for Simmers Grave Ends in Disappointment
  • Real Estate Mogul Fred Pickering Died Alone
  • Gumshoe Turns Up Site of Original Pennsylvania Farmstead
  • Great Aunt Gertrude Wanted to Buy Up All the Copies of Her Husband’s Biography
  • J.E. Thompson Doled Out Frontier Justice at Rancho Joaquina
  • Shit The Y’s Taught Me
  • Pop Thompson Left Merritt-Chapman & Scott Just in Time
  • Ely City Nevada: The Town That Went Poof!
  • Stop the Presses: Marie Gingras Mystery Solved
  • Former Editor Keeps Old Mug Around House, Much to Wife’s Chagrin
  • My Six Most Awful Discoveries — So Far
  • Family Research Confirms Link Between Wealth and Obesity
  • Five Bad Pieces of Genealogy Advice
  • Remembering Some Pioneering Inventors
  • Bar Set High for Alder Manor Historic Rehab
  • The Colonel Makes Surprise Appearance at BTI 90th Anniversary Celebration
  • TFH Exclusive: Owners Provide Inside Tour of Rancho Joaquina
  • New Discovery Confirms Rancho Joaquina’s Status as Historic Treasure
  • Legendary Phoenix Funnyman Remembered for His Madcap Antics
  • Boyce Thompson Cactus Really Does Bloom
  • The Man from Asarco Once Visited St. Louis
  • Judah P. Benjamin Was Forced to Leave His Desk Behind
  • Long-Lost Hugh Simmers Bracelet Recovered
  • J.E. Thompson Brought Indoor Plumbing to Greer, Ariz.
  • J.E. Thompson’s Greer Cabin Went Up in Flames!
  • Memories of Memorial Day
  • Ernest Kruttschnitt Portrait Moved to Where No One Will See It
  • Intriguing Band Set to Play Low-Brow Venue
  • The Gumbo Is Particularly Good at My Sixth Great Grandfather’s Place
  • Not Even German Bombs Could Interfere With Peggy Schulze’s Royal Marriage
  • Boner House Still Stands Tall in Milan, Missouri
  • History No Longer So Kind to Ernest Kruttschnitt
  • Thompson Family History: The First Chapter
  • Earliest North American Relative Jailed for Assaulting Tailor
  • Debate Rages Over Which William Thompson Was Actually the Man
  • The Inside Story of the Cumberland-Ely Deal: How William Boyce Thompson Outflanked the Guggenheims
  • Small Palm Planted in 1897 Now Rises to More Than 40 Feet
  • J.R. Boyce Sheds Light on the True Meaning of Masonry
  • Preservation Law Saves Julius Kruttschnitt Home from Wrecking Ball
  • Faint Praise Heard for New Boyce Thompson Release
  • The Work of Joseph Ough: Not Entirely Gone, But Largely Forgotten
  • John Quincy Boner’s Death Came as Surprise to Milan, Mo.
  • Rancho Joaquina Needed a Facelift Before It Could be Shown to the Public
  • On the Road: The Treacherous Touch the Wig Tour
  • The Rough and Rocky Road to Peter’s Rock
  • Phoenician Officials Razed Mabel Thompson’s Historically Significant Phoenix Estate
  • Clergy Inhabit Mabel Thompson Filor’s Old Stony Point Estate
  • The Kruttschnitt Summer Home in Connecticut Was Hard to Find
  • Pressed Into Action, Mabel Simmers Proved To Be an Adept Businesswoman
  • Colonel Thompson Never Watched the Sun Rise from a Bathtub on Wheels
  • Great Uncle John Fired His Brother Because He Couldn’t Find the Lost Dutchman’s Mine
  • J.R. Boyce Asked His Second Wife for a Divorce — Through the Newspaper
  • Rebecca Kruttschnitt Was a Published Illustrator
  • Deathbed Letters: My Life’s Story
  • Deathbed Letters: The Meekest Man
  • Deathbed Letters: Coming to Blows
  • Deathbed Letters: The Near Killing of Uncle Bill
  • Deathbed Letters: The Young Swede
  • William Thompson Confirmed That the Pope Didn’t Have Horns
  • Bernard Kock Colonized Cow Island With Freed Slaves
  • The Colonel’s Large Specimens Steal the Show at the American Museum of Natural History
  • Francis Libby Rowed George Washington Across the Hudson—for Booze
  • John Libby Lost His Homes and Two Children in King Phillip’s War
  • Margaret Maguire’s Parents Hated That She Married a Tailor
  • Vigilantes Turned to Ace Carpenter William Thompson for Quick and Dirty Gallows
  • Legendary Frontiersman William Thompson Lost Everything–Several Times
  • Henry de Clifford Anthony Woodhouse Shot Down at Least Five German Aircraft During WWII
  • J.R. Boyce Tells All in Revealing Graveside Interview
  • Walking in the Thompson Party Footsteps
  • Palatial Party Boat Was Converted Into Lean-Mean-Fighting Machine
  • Jimmy Filor and His Family Died in Plane Crash
  • Hatevil Nutter Was A Cruel Religious Hypocrite
  • Joy Ride Turns Into Horrible Tragedy
  • Queen Elizabeth Ate from Margaret Biddle’s Plates
  • Elizabeth Boner’s Close Cousin Went Down With the Titanic
  • Getting On Anna Wilson’s Good Side: A Children’s Tale
  • The Magnate Bought His Massive Mineral Collection on Impulse
  • Boyce Thompson: Last Drop-Kicker in Westchester County
  • Hunt for Homes Built by J.E. Thompson Turns Into Wild Goose Chase
  • Hidden Evidence Proves the Kruttschnitts Did Actually Live in Tucson House
  • Academic Rips Apart Mardi Gras Queen Alma Kruttschnitt’s Dress
  • Meany and Babushka Admired Each Other’s Handiwork
  • Hugh Simmers, Jr., Knew How to Have Fun, Even Though He Worked His Whole Life
  • Eddie McCullen: Murdered in Manhattan
  • Thompson Colonnade Greets Visitors to Butte Cemetery
  • Ernest’s Butler Still Haunts His New Orleans Home

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