Stories rise like biscuits in the oven—warm, steady, made from memory. Here, we honor the women who fed generations with their hands, their hearts, and a cast-iron skillet. This is where recipes become stories, and stories become legacy.
A Century of Family Voices. Imagine discovering a time capsule filled with letters from your ancestors — stories, hopes, and blessings written just for you. Their words would be a gift through time, a bridge between lives … Now, it’s our turn to be that bridge.
Just over nine years ago, we made a radical decision … we turned over a sweet, new leaf.
Before the Barrackville bridge crossed Buffalo Creek, a boy named John Dragoo stood between two worlds. Born to a Shawnee mother and a captured settler father, his story flickers at the edges of recorded history—brief, brave, and half-forgotten, like footprints along a shifting, ancestral riverbank.
We live among the silent ones, the forgotten ones. They are silent only because we do not have ears to hear. They are forgotten but not erased. They are there, in the deep, in the background, continuing their journey through us.
In the borderlands of 1786, survival rewrote identities—a capture, a return, a name that shifts in the telling. William Dragoo’s story begins where certainty ends.
It is speculated that the first Davis in America, Thomas Davis, formerly of Marlborough, England, came by boat in 1641. And believe it or not, the first artichoke seeds, like Davis, were also brought by boat! Unbelievable, right?
Lately, we’ve been hearing the phrase “pick a lane and stay in it!” Sound advice in theory and yet, challenging in practice. Even so, we’ve been mapping this metaphor to our life wherever possible.
We believe that the most effective way to create lasting, positive experiences is to root every celebration in tradition and ritual. We accomplish this through the use of Anniversary Symbols, allowing for the symbols to serve as guides to reveal the magic of the moment.
Each moment is alive with possibilities of pure potential. The dynamics of life are intricate and often complicated, and yet, we have each other to learn from. Like looking into a mirror to adjust our appearance, we can look into each other and adjust our person and our beliefs about our limitations.
We sometimes find that our different family lines have a funny way of speaking to each other across the generations. They send secret messages back and forth, like little classroom love birds, waiting for the teacher to turn her back.
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
It seems that we just couldn’t find the time to reach our 2023 goal to post at least one article a month. We wondered, where did the time go? Can we make time for people and projects, or are we caught up in the “rat race” of life?