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.
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.
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.
While some folk will do almost anything to avoid family get-togethers, the Dragoo Family descendants will do almost anything to hang out and talk with each other.
Our Carr Davis family is a potpourri of wordsmiths and creative artists. Among them, one of the most prolific is Vi Parsons. A true weaver of words and history, Vi is the author of five books and countless published articles.
The one thing that is consistent about life is that it always changes. With the help of the previous generations, we ready ourselves for Family Re-membering.
On her 93rd birthday, our friend LaVerne Grell told us her secret to a long, healthy, joyful life: “eat your dessert first and celebrate everything!”
It used to be called Arm Chair Travel–an exploration of exotic lands and interesting people. But this pictorial guide is more than just visiting far away exciting places, it is a travel back in time.