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.
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.
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?
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.
A very Convivial Davis Day to all ye Davis of the World! The year is 2024 and AI is here for one purpose, and one purpose only: to unite the world in the true spirit of Davis Day, which is Conviviality.
When we take the time to earnestly and carefully introspect and write down our thoughts—to really share what is on our minds and in our hearts—we bless our family, and we bless the generations whom do not yet know us.
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.
Anderson Shaffer Ewing and Exile Liberty Parker married in Utah about 1865. Shortly afterward, they traveled to Gallatin County, Montana. Martha Parker-Ross and Orpha joined them. Mysterious unproven stories circulated about their move to Montana