[Helen Amanda (Sampson) Blaisdell, 1843-1927, Moline, Illinois, widow ofCaptain James M. Blaisdell, 1835-1897, 9th New Hampshire Regiment, wrote the following letter June 3, 1914 — 17 years after her husband’s death — to the U.S. Pension Office.] Dear Sir,I am the widow of James Blaisdell, Co. H, 9th NH Regiment. I will do the best […]
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Journey of the Blaisdells
by Louise Butler Stephen Hawking, the world’s most renowned physicist, and possibly the only true rival to Albert Einstein in sheer brain power, asks: “Why can’t we remember the future as we do the past?” He reasons that both are points on the arrow of time, yet we only have mental references for the one […]
Crossing the Atlantic in 1635
BACKGROUND: R. Carter Blaisdell, Black Mountain, NC, prepared the research for the Angel Gabriel’s “Crossing of the Atlantic in 1635” in 1997. He based his research on the 1635 diary of Rev. Richard Mather, a Puritan divine, and on a paper by J. Mason Burnham, presented in August 1985 at the 350th anniversary of the […]