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~ Barbara Rodgers

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~ Emily Dickinson

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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled – to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
~ Mary Oliver

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Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its own focus.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Family History Pages

*Our Ancestors
*Timothy W. Rodgers
Atwood, Barnabas & Lydia Shurtleff
Atwood, Ebenezer & Waitstill Lucas
Atwood, Ichabod & Hannah Shaw
Atwood, John & Sarah Masterton
Atwood, Nathaniel & Abigail Shaw; Mary Adams
Atwood, Nathaniel & Mary
Atwood, Nathaniel & Zilpha Shurtleff
Atwood, Reuel & Abigail Savery Tillson
Atwood, Reuel Gardner & Louisa Jane Atwood
Atwood, Samuel & Patience Cobb
Baker, Benjamin & Eliza R. Eldridge
Bartlett, Benjamin & Ruth Peabody
Bartlett, Benjamin & Sarah Brewster
Brewster, Jonathan & Lucretia Oldham
Brewster, Love & Sarah Collier
Brewster, William & Mary
Case, Aaron Newton & Laura Amanda Roberts
Case, Hermon Roberts & Paulina Elizabeth Minor
Chomiak, William & Katherine Fusiak
Crowell, Joseph & Sarah Howes
Flanzer, Moritz Kalman & Sadie Roth
Freeman, Edmund & Bennett Hodsoll
Freeman, Edmund & Sarah Mayo
Freeman, Edmund & Sarah Sparrow
Freeman, John & Abigail Hopkins
Freeman, John & Mercy Prence
Freeman, Jonathan & Thankful Linnell
Freeman, Thomas & Roxanna Cash
Freeman, Warren & Elisabeth Weekes
Fusiak, Konrad & Ludmila Karasek
Hamblin, William & Amanda Bearse
Hamblin, William Nelson & Annie Eliza Baker
Hamilton, Andrew & Marie Chalmers
Hamilton, Benjamin & Rachel Gardner
Hamilton, Charles Amos & Gertrude Mabel Hubbard
Hamilton, Charles Munson & Eliza Ann Devoe
Hamilton, John & Elizabeth de Peyster
Hamilton, Stephen
Hamilton, William & Nellie Hurd
Hill, Robinson & Lydia
Hill, Rufus & Lydia White
Hopkins, Giles & Catherine Whelden
Hopkins, Joshua & Mary Cole
Hopkins, Joshua & Priscilla Curtis
Hopkins, Joshua & Rebecca Sparrow
Hopkins, Stephen & Mary
Howes, Jeremiah & Mary Daggett
Howes, Jeremiah & Sarah Prence
Hubbard, Delorma Brown & Emma J. Pridmore
Hubbard, Eliphalet & Abigail Johnson
Hubbard, John & Lydia P. Randolph
Hubbard, Joseph & Elizabeth Hollister
Hubbard, Joseph & Mabel Sutlief
Huntley, Aaron & Mary Champion
Huntley, Asher & Betsey Wilder Tiffany
Huntley, David & Mary Munsell
Huntley, Ezekiel & Naomi Tiffany
Huntley, John & Jane
Huntley, Leonard & Hannah Wheeler
Huntley, Loren Grant & Mary Jane Fowler
Koyl, Ephraim & Abigail Redding
Kyle, John & Agnes
Kyle, John & Mary
Lucas, Caleb & Asenath Shurtleff
Minor, Ezekiel & Margaret Beckwith
Minor, Joseph & Grace Turner
Minor, Martin & Elizabeth Davis
Minor, William & Naomi Reniff
Murdock, John & Ruth Bartlett
Nickerson, Joshua & Thankful Eldridge
Prence, Thomas & Patience Brewster
Pridmore, Abraham & Elizabeth Bramston
Pridmore, William & Anna Sturgess
Randolph, Abram & Jane Koyl
Raven, Henry Charles & Clarinda Sweet
Raven, Marion Case & Catherine Alta Verplanck
Raven, Peter & Rachel Groom
Raven, Peter George & Sabrina Cummins
Raven, William Franklin & Elona Naomi Case
Roberts, Lemuel & Ruth Woodford
Rodgers, Elijah & Zipporah Ann Horton
Rodgers, George Lincoln & Mary Jane Rodgers
Rodgers, Jacob & Mahala Bedford
Rodgers, Neadom & Hanorah O’Brien
Shaw, Elkanah & Elizabeth Atwood
Shurtleff, Abiel & Lydia Barnes
Shurtleff, Barnabas & Jemima Adams
Shurtleff, Francis & Mary Shaw
Shurtleff, William & Deborah Ransom
Shurtleff, William & Elizabeth Lettice
Shurtleff, William & Ruth Shaw
Shurtleff, William & Susanna Lothrop
Sparrow, Jonathan & Hannah Prence
Sparrow, Richard & Mercy Cobb
Sweet, Josiah & Eunice Day
Thompson, Elias & Elizabeth Davis
Thompson, James & Mary
Thompson, Martin & Ann Isabella Hughs
Thompson, Martin Edward & Elisabeth Emma Freeman
Thompson, Martin Freeman & Amanda Eliza Hamblin
Tillson, Ichabod & Azuba Thomas
Tillson, Stephen & Janet Murdock
Tønnes Ingebretsen & Kristin Kristensdatter
Tønnesen, Hans Mathias & Dorthea Larsdatter
Turner, Ezekiel & Susanna Keeney
Turner, John & Mary Brewster
Verplanck, George Washington & Ermina Huntley
Weekes, Ammiel & Phebe Small
Weekes, George & Deborah Wing
Weekes, Isaac & Elisabeth Allen
Weekes, Isaac & Thankful Nickerson
White, Austin & Lucy Ann Thompson
White, Oliver & Lydia
White, Samuel Minor & Emma Flora Atwood
White, William Martin & Ellen C. Hill

silent sunday

“Christmas Tree Felling” by Hans Andersen Brendekilde

Posted on November 30, 2025August 25, 2025Author Barbara RodgersCategories Christmas, Hans Andersen Brendekilde, Midwinter, SundayTags advent, trees, tyranny, winter

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