Historical society

Her world was punctual, if unremarkable.

She organized Tuesday Children's Hour, Ryan Genealogy Night for the Historical Society, and found small, careful ways to connect with struggling high schoolers, none more so than Megan Price, who in retirement dedicated hours to unwinding library archives, sometimes as companionable silence.

But subtle disruptions had begun, ones only visible when pieced together later.

Carol thought back to the afternoon last December when Joan abruptly closed the library, posting a half-apologetic family matter sign and vanishing for hours.

Sarmiento, like Captain Hamilton, does not mention Betsy Ross and does not credit the origin of our flag to any one person or to any committee or group of persons, but considers honor due to many individuals who assisted, more or less, in the development of our flag.

so far as i can learn no mention of mrs rossaker's in any history of our country or any of the many biographies of washington prior to eighteen seventy ninety three years after the flag was adopted In that year, however, Mr. William J. Canby of Philadelphia read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania a paper on the history of the American flag in which he stated that his maternal grandmother, Mrs. John Ross, was the first maker and partial designer of the Stars and Stripes.

Mr. Canby said that Mrs. Ross received a call in June 1776 from General Washington colonel george ross and robert morse who told her they were in a committee of congress and wanted her to make a flag from a rough drawing they had which drawing upon her suggestion was redrawn by washington in pencil This was prior to the Declaration of Independence.

Mr. Canby claimed that he had heard his grandmother tell the story when he was a boy 11 years old, and that three of Mrs. Ross's daughters, then living in 1870, and a niece, age 95, confirmed his statements.

No one else seemed to notice the way Evelyn and Richard stood slightly too close together near our record player, laughing under the low living room lighting as the condensation from their glasses dampened the old woodside table.

Some guests were draped over cushions, others clustered around the cheese board and maps of the city's forgotten neighbourhoods, Evelyn's latest historical society project.

Swathes of Friday night fog pressed against the windows, their blurred shapes swallowing the city lights and making our second-story apartment feel like an island above it all.

I hovered in the archway between the kitchen and living room, searching for a place to wedge myself back into the conversation I'd left to refill drinks, but I wasn't needed.

I'd patchwork her flea-market linens into curtain ties.

Hosting was our shared language.

We were forever squeezing more chairs around dinner tables, hauling up crates of bottles our friends left behind, people from design school, some from Evelyn's new orbit in the city's historical society.

She joined the group about a year ago, searching for old-world glamour, and I think, a break from strictly digital pursuits.

Sarmiento, like Captain Hamilton, does not mention Betsy Ross and does not credit the origin of our flag to any one person or to any committee or group of persons, but considers honor due to many individuals who assisted, more or less, in the development of our flag.

so far as i can learn no mention of mrs rossaker's in any history of our country or any of the many biographies of washington prior to eighteen seventy ninety three years after the flag was adopted In that year, however, Mr. William J. Canby of Philadelphia read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania a paper on the history of the American flag in which he stated that his maternal grandmother, Mrs. John Ross, was the first maker and partial designer of the Stars and Stripes.

Mr. Canby said that Mrs. Ross received a call in June 1776 from General Washington, colonel george ross and robert morse who told her they were in a committee of congress and wanted her to make a flag from a rough drawing they had which drawing upon her suggestion was redrawn by washington in pencil This was prior to the Declaration of Independence.

Mr. Canby claimed that he had heard his grandmother tell the story when he was a boy 11 years old, and that three of Mrs. Ross's daughters, then living in 1870, and a niece, age 95, confirmed his statements.

Where?

The Historical Society.

Come on, Gin.

Oh, good for...

Yeah.

That's great.

Just rolled right into the [laughs] Historical Society and said, "Hey, you got any information on the 1927 flood?" I thought they would look at me like I was insane, but they were like, "Yeah." They lit up-

[laughs]

Five died in that accident.

Draper's Historic Society is giving a nod to a very unique piece of the city's history, the Widowmaker Race.

It took place between 1964 and 1988, where motorcycle riders tried to make it up a 1,000 foot climb.

Jason Wiggins is a volunteer with the Draper Historic Preservation Commission and says, Next month, the plaque memorializing the Widowmaker Race will be unveiled at the flight park.