🚂 Breaking bread with the dead

Here we are at the first day of autumn 2020, and the first quarterly issue of This Mortal Portal. This issue has 3 parts:

  • Pickin' Fights With Mennonites - On what I learned from my great grandpa’s 1901 journal
  • Vic's Picks - Slices of what I'm enjoying, in music, books, food, place, and more
  • For The Record - What I made or helped make this summer

Taken together, it's about a ten-minute read. Enjoy!


Pickin' Fights With Mennonites

What I learned from my great grandfather’s 1901 journal.

My daughters love it when I tell them stories of when their grandpa was a boy. But when they asked me about their grandpa’s grandpa, I had to do some research.