Connecting Clues

My great-grandfather Andrew Adair Cummins was born in Cawker City, Kansas on October 20, 1887. Like the other three great-grandparents...

A few posts ago I wrote about my great-grandfather Wallace Brockman Porter, the son of a railroad tallyman who won a scholarship at age...

I've traced two out of four great-grandfathers so far, identifying where my relatives where in comparison to The Judge's children. I know...

My great-grandfather on my mother's side was born in 1892--part of the same generation as The Judge's children. His father worked for the...

In some ways, the story of The Judge's house is one of criss-crossing family fates. A family resides in the house until their fortunes,...

On her deathbed, The Judge's daughter begged her parents..... The Judge’s only daughter, Pauline, died in 1912. On her deathbed, she...

Connecting the clues at library across the street The library across the street from The Judge’s House is The Louis T. Graves Memorial...

Does the brother's painting reveal more about his life? The Judge's brother was an artist. We know that from newspaper articles and a...

I invite you to push play on the recording above and imagine life as it might have been in the 1900's. The Judge's oldest child and only...

What books do you think might have irked the American Library Association in 1881? Women's fiction, according to an essay by Dee Garrison...

1.) Pamphlet from the 1891 show including Frank Luques, The Judge's younger brother 2.) Exterior of the Boston Art Club at circa 1892...

"Luques had come to that point in his development where he was about to express in the terms of his art what he had it in him to say."...

What do I know about the man who painted the murals in The Judge's dining room, Louis D. Norton? After my essay on the murals and the...

I've been reading about Victorian Culture to better understand the world The Judge was shaped by. With most of my research, I am...

The Judge's daughter, Pauline Luques, may have worn a costume much like the one below when she starred in the title role of PATIENCE, the...

This stunning painting is by Abbott Fuller Graves. The artist trained in Boston and Paris but would eventually call Kennebunkport home....

The Judge hired Louis D. Norton to paint the walls of the dining room, creating murals that tell a history of the house and the town. I...