Hunt family Thanksgiving Photos

Well, Thanksgiving is over and the family photos are beginning to trickle in.  Send me any family photos that you took for the holidays and I will post them.

I have here photos of the Hunt Family.

Bradley Robert Hunt

Bradley Robert Hunt

Sherina, Justin & Bradley Hunt

Jason, Brother of Justin, Sherina, Gregory Merrill and his family: Jennifer (Hunt), sister of Justin and there two Merrill boys with little Bradley Hunt

Greg & Jennifer Merrill & Ethan & Drew

Bradley's First Haircut

Bradley Hunt is turning one years old this Saturday September 18th. He wanted to look good for all his party guests so he decided it was time to get his first haircut.

California Farms of the 1920's

After writing the blog about the Marques family, immigrant farmers from Portugal.   I realized that they are five generations from little Bradly Hunt. Augusta was Eleanor's grand mother, and Eleanor is Sherina's grandmother.  So that makes Augusta Bradley's,  great, great, great grandmother.
When I think of immigrant farm labor of the 1920's in California, I think of the great John Steinbeck novel, "The Grapes of Wrath".  Man's inhumanity to his fellow man. Steinbeck consistently and woefully pointed to the fact that the migrants’ great suffering was caused not by bad weather or mere misfortune but by their fellow human beings.  Living in Sacramento myself, I know a little bit about the history of the cannery.  Over 100,000 migrant men and women workers were employed packing cans of fruit and sugar beats.  In sociology classes I took at The University of California at Davis, we were taught about Chavez and the Mexican Migrant.  Steinbeck wrote about the displaced farm belt families of Oklahoma.  Researching the Marques family was the first I had read about all the immigrants from Portugal.

Have we come very far in the past ninety years?  If you didn't read my blog, check it out under the Ginn pages.

Bradley Hunt Birthday

Bradley is so exited that he is turning one years old?

Printing in Vermont

Printing has long been a profession of our ancestors.   Currently Ronald F. Ginn is employed as a printer.  He learned this profession from his father  -in-law Donald J. Howie.  However, William R. Howie was the first in the family line.

A newbie by settlement standards of the east coast, Vermont has an early history of printing. The oldest newspaper was the Vermont Gazette, published in Westminster from 1781 to 1783 by Alden, Spooner, & Green. Interestingly, the printing press used was the first one brought to the colonies from England in 1683. The oldest continuously published family-owned newspaper in the country is the Rutland Herald, covering the entire state since 1794. Newspaper publishing was centered in four locations: Bennington, Brattleboro, Rutland, and Burlington. Most towns in Vermont had their own local newspapers by 1830, which corresponds with the peak population of rural Vermont towns.