I have added a new page under the Antes Family menu item. On this page I list the hymns of John Antes that have been published in the two most recent Moravian hymnals.
If you have information, documents, etc. that would be of interest for the Antes, Fries, or Bardo families (and that is verifiable) I would be pleased to add it to this site and to credit you for your contribution.
Born and raised in north central Pennsylvania but no longer dwelling there, my heart still finds its home in those hills. Within weeks of finishing my first round of college and post-college education and marrying, another woman entered into my life, unwanted and, in a sense, unannounced. Her name was Agnes. She was a hurricane – or what was left of one. She vented her fury on my homeland and left many parts of it devastated. Some of those places have not yet recovered some forty years later.
Three years later another woman poured her wrath upon the same land. Her name was Eloise. She was not quite as fierce as Agnes, but still she wreaked similar havoc upon my beloved hills and countryside.
Now and then in the intervening years other boys and girls of summer would take their aim and do their worst. Each time my heart grieved.
Recently Lee took his shot, and for most of my homeland he bested even Agnes. Luckily some preparations for his coming worked well. Major towns were spared the worst of his wrath, but the others were not so lucky.
These are towns and places in which I can trace my roots into the 1700′s. My family has called these valleys home for over two hundred years.
I look at pictures and listen to reports of the devastation again… “…while my guitar gently weeps”. (re: George Harrison).
Welcome to vexillog.wordpress.com!
The contents of this new blog are now the new home of some of the more significant pages of my previous website www.vexillog.com. I intend to close that website at the end of 2011.
I hope to use the vehicle of this blog to preserve some of my (and other’s) research into my family history, in particular, the Antes Family. I will also add additional posts of thoughts and musings from time to time.
Most of the pertinent content of this blog will be found via the auxillary pages. You may navigate to them by selecting them at the top of this blog.
Please be patient as I navigate the content of the old website to this blog and reformat it as befits a blog. For now some of the text may seem bizarre as I include markers to images, links, etc. which have not yet been made active.
