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  • March 31, 2026

Fruit of the Family Tree

Every family tree hides a little wonder. Among its branches and leaves, past the names and stories, there is sometimes a bit of unexpected fruit—sweet, bright, and waiting to be discovered. Now Ridge Haven offers online access to its digital harvest, inviting family members to gather treasured stories with just a click.

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March 25, 2026 · by: JnK Davis

From Our Burrow To Yours --A Family of Davis Badgers.

A Wink Of Spring – A Day of Davis

When winter finally loosens its frosty fingers, something delightful comes skipping in on the March breeze: Davis Day. Part holiday, part fairy tale, and wholly devoted to joy, she arrives with flowers, laughter, and the delicious suspicion that the world is about to become a little more beautiful.

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March 8, 2026 · by: JnK Davis

Michael Dragoo At A Colonial food Demonstration

A Seat at the Ancestors’ Table

Step into the hearth-lit kitchens of the 1750s–1780s. In Colonial Comfort Foods, Michael Dragoo turns authentic recipes and cooking methods into a vivid bridge to family history—helping us taste what it was like to be our ancestors, one dish at a time.

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February 14, 2026 · by: JnK Davis

Nancy stands in her kitchen. A 1969 calendar hangs on the wall behind her.

Words Like Butter, Pages Like Biscuits

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.

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November 5, 2025 · by: JnK Davis

Victorian letters and photos accompany a letter, pocket watch and candle

The Torchbearer Project

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.

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October 18, 2025 · by: JnK Davis

The Sweet Life

Just over nine years ago, we made a radical decision … we turned over a sweet, new leaf.

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September 3, 2025 · by: JnK Davis

The Boy Between Banks

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.

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August 18, 2025 · by: JnK Davis

Susan Bright Dragoo, Susanna Bright Dragoo, Susanna Dragoo

A Space for Susanna

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.

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July 16, 2025 · by: JnK Davis

Becoming Billy

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.

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April 21, 2025 · by: JnK Davis

The Artichoke Story

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?

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March 9, 2025 · by: JnK Davis

A License Plate repurposed into a tray holding several playing dice

License to Repurpose

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.

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February 12, 2025 · by: JnK Davis

First Anniversary: Symbols and Celebration

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.

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January 13, 2025 · by: JnK Davis

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