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i-spaced-sorry · 2 years

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Optimal Road Trip

Characters: Jay Halstead x Hailey Upton x Halstead!Sister Summary: Halstead!Sister gets math homework and decides it needs to become a reality.

Square Filled: Road Trip for @resanoona 3K Fiesta Bingo (I hope this counts since it’s talking about planning a road trip)

Working overtime was standard when it came to tough cases, but the idea of getting to go home and have a rare day off for 3 days was always the best reward. However for Jay and Hailey, when they walked through their front door of their shared apartment, expecting to be able to fall into bed and pass out, instead they were greeted with a very hyper 17yr old Y/N.

“Oh good! Your home! Guess what I got assigned to do for math homework!” exclaimed Y/N as she came barreling into the front hallway.

“Well hello to you too Y/N” chuckled Jay while kicking off his shoes.

You stopped bouncing and looked very serious, “Jayyyyy, guess.”

Sighing, Jay replied, “I don't know, you got assigned to go to bed?” He wasn’t in the mood for your hyperness at 6:30pm on a Friday, when he had been up and at the station or other crime scenes at 4am most days this week.

Rolling your eyes, you replied, “In math this week we have been learning about graph theory! So our teacher Ms. Hunnicutt assigned us a project where we pick 5 cities, not including Chicago, and we have to find the most optimal route for a road trip! Isn’t that fun!”

Smiling to himself, Jay replied, “so much fun kiddo”

The couple and the youngest Halstead at this point had migrated to the couch in the living room.

Once everyone was sat down comfortably, Y/N swiped her notebook from the coffee table and started opening it to a page, “My teacher was talking about how when she was in high school, she was assigned this project and her parents had actually taken her on the road trip she created, ya know to test out the theory.” she began. “So I was thinking maybe if you guys could get the time off, we could do that?” she added while finally flipping to the page she was looking for.

Glancing at Hailey and glancing back at his sister, Jay sighed and spoke, “It depends on where you want to go. I’m not making any promises but I will hear you out on your city choices.”

And with that, Y/N smiled and began listing off her cities, “Okay, so we have Chicago - which doesn’t count - then we have New York City, any city in Puerto Rico - I need help in that realm of things - Portland Oregon, Appleton Wisconsin, and Houston Texas!” Once she listed off the cities, she looked up at her brother and sister in law and waited for them to say something…anything… but she was not prepared for what her brother did.

Jay just started laughing.

Furrowing her brows, Y/N asked, “What’s wrong with the cities I chose? New York would be so we could go see Aunt Erin. Puerto Rico would be so we can visit Uncle Antonio and Aunt Gabby, Portland was so we could see Uncle Casey, Houston was so we could see Uncle Rixton, and Appleton was so we could see Aunt Vanessa! I chose places I knew you guys would enjoy going to!”

With Jay continuously laughing, Hailey spoke up, “Y/N, those are good options if you didn’t want to go on a real road trip, but we can’t go to most of those places in a real road trip”

“Why not?” whispered Y/N, clearly not as hyped as she was at the beginning of the conversation.

Jay finally composed himself enough to side hug his sister and calmly respond, “Hailey is right kiddo. We a. Can’t possibly make it to Puerto Rico anytime soon. And both Uncle Rixton and Aunt Vanessa are deep undercover, so technically we can’t really even get in contact with them or even know where they are located at the moment.”

Your lip started to quiver as you began to tear the page out of your notebook, but before you got very far Jay stopped you.

“But let’s all sit here together and come up with some cities we can visit. I liked your idea of visiting Aunt Erin and Uncle Casey.”

So for the next 45 minutes you, Jay, and Hailey all spitball cities and people you could visit in this fictional but real road trip.

“So our final round of cities are as follows, 1. Chicago - which we said doesn’t count in the 5. 2. New York City - to see Aunt Erin, 3. Portland - to see Uncle Casey, 4. Milwaukee - to visit the Halstead family cabin, 5. Wilmington - to visit the locations of my favorite show Dawson’s Creek, and 6. Malibu - to visit the location of Jay’s favorite show MASH” recited Y/N.

Smiling, Hailey spoke, “I think those are some very nice cities and very feasible places we can visit. Jay and I will request PTO on Monday when we go in.”

Stretching his back and yawning, Jay adds, “Agreed, now if you don’t need us anymore. I think Hailey and I have a date with our pillows. Please don’t need us until at least 11 am tomorrow” and with that Hailey and Jay hugged Y/N and headed for their bedroom.

#resa.3kfiestabingo #halstead!sister #jay halstead x halstead!sister #Hailey Upton x Halstead!sister

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darlinggeorgiedear · 8 months

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Hii, hope you're doing okay. On my perception, George made a great march with Queen Mary, for she was very devoted to the monarchy. However, I kinda often wonder how a marriage between him and Marie of Romania would have gone. What do you think?

Hi! Thank you!

I am mostly convinced that it would have been not good. I know many Marie fans think she wouldn't have had affairs or have developed such a theatrical personality without living in Romania and her failed marriage. I understand that point, and agree to a certain extent, that she wouldn't have been as theatrical.

George would have insisted on them living in Norfolk like he did with Mary. Marie would definitely had hated Norfolk, and gotten just as bored, as she did in Romania.

Possibly, since Marie would have had a bigger dowry and with Marie A insistence, wouldn't have had the living options of York Cottage or Appleton. I kind of doubt this though, because the reason George was offered the choice of two slightly shabby homes for his wedding gift was really a reflection of his family dynamic. His sister Maud was given Appleton as her wedding gift, which she joyfully accepted.

I just think Marie also loved attention from men and needed validation all the time. As we know, George was not really a "Romeo", and was better at small steady gestures (which was not Marie's style). He also would not have tolerated his wife cheating on him.

I'd imagine they would have lived separate lives (no divorce), and George's reign would be not as notable without proper support.

George and Marie, as a match, to me, is similar to Albert Victor and Alexandra of Hesse.

Also, Buckingham Palace would be a lot more gilded, and the British Royal jewels would be a lot more gaudy.

I wanted to add that once Marie A. noted one of the key issues with her other daughter, Ducky, and her husband, Ernest, is that Ducky was a "woman of the world" and a man like Ernest couldn't satisfy her. Ernest was actually very artistic and cosmopolitan, but I guess in ways he wasn't "worldly." This to me, would have been Marie A.'s explanation on why Missy and George wouldn't have worked too. Both Missy and Ducky both had personalities and values that were more fitted for the 21st century.

#king george v #george v #brf #british royal family #marie of romania

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thisisareallymeaningfulurl · 5 months

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I’m sososososo excited for Christmas I’m pretty sure I’m getting Legos and I fuckin love legos so much! I know for sure I’m getting a new bookshelf and a giant bottle of expensive Jamaican run (Appleton Estate so I’m gonna make some good ass Mai Tais and Dark & Stormys) and apparently my uncle who loves me very much went NUTS on his yearly board game shopping for me (board games are his special interest so he loves that I love them too)

It’s not just about what I’m getting though I’m excited that I’m hosting for the first time ever and my siblings are going to have a sleepover at my apartment, and we’re going to my work for a family dessert party (work even booked us as a VIP table so we get free shots heyo) and since I bake… basically everything for the restaurant they’re all excited to see what I make there! And I bought some really cool stuff for my family and boyfriend and my sister’s boyfriend (who is one of my best friends). I got both my brothers a culinary-themed gift, and I KNOW my BF is going to love what I got him, and my sister’s BF is once again receiving an anime figure from me because we kind of have a tradition of that lol

Anyways this post is long but this is the most exciting Christmas I’ve had in years and I’m very very ready for Monday to see how it goes

#personal bluh

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officerwaltons · 5 months

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MUSE INTRODUCTION: WINIFRED ANN HALE

twilight saga based original character, open for cross overs. see details below the cut !

baby jane doe was born somewhere between february ninth and february twelfth, 1988 in appleton, wisconsin. she was left in front of the hospital doors at st. elizabeth’s hospital; on her way to accompany carlisle home from work, rosalie found the infant. she told, not asked, the rest of the family that they were keeping her. secrecy be damned; this baby had the same curls that henry’d had fifty years earlier, and rosalie was enthralled. jasper and edward came around once it was clear she wouldn’t be swayed, and once alice assured jasper many times that she didn’t see him hurting the girl. winifred, by another stroke of luck, is anemic. it makes her blood much less appealing to vampires, while not significantly impacting her health.

now, winifred (who uses hale, since she passes as jasper & rosalie’s biological sister) does her best to be a normal high school teenager. she tries to sneak out past curfew, ‘borrows’ rosalie’s cars, and begs one of her siblings to take her SAT for her. she’s a social girl with a strong rebellious streak. she’s quick-thinking and sharp-tongued. winifred (wini usually, freddie for emmett exclusively) is well liked at forks high and is a frequent face at house parties. she’s friendly with a lot of the locals, and is a huge help in minimizing any suspicion on her family- or she has been, anyway, until the new swan girl shows up.

#𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐕𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐆𝐄— muse introductions #indie twilight rp #twilight rp #muse: winifred hale

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jaytodd1129 · 2 years

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ok but like i hadn't actually noticed just how much Emma Appleton and Joey Batey kinda look alike (big eyes, brown hair, full lips, etc) until I read two fics where they are related and now I'm craving more "Renfri is Jaskier's mother/sister/cousin/whatever and now Jaskier and Geralt's story is extra tragic because Geralt is the one who killed someone that Jaskier loved very much PLUS.. perhaps at first Jaskier reminds Geralt so much of Renfri maybe that's why he treats him the way he does at the beginning of their friendship?? because it pains him to just look at his face. And maybe at first Geralt only indulges Jaskier BECAUSE he reminds him of Renfri, but as time goes on, Jaskier starts to become JASKIER in his head, and at some point Geralt realizes he loves Jaskier for who he is, not for who he reminds him of and that the love he has for Jaskier is completely unrelated to his and Renfri's past, but maybe Jaskier has a hard time believing it at this point, seeing as how Geralt has been obviously comparing him to Renfri all this time?? and so when Geralt makes a move on him Jaskier rejects him because he thinks Geralt wants Renfri not him, and Geralt needs to convince him otherwise"

..something like that.

plus, imagine Geralt leaving Jaskier in their camp to go hunting, and when he comes back, he manages to hear Jaskier singing a soft tune on his lute that breaks his heart, since it's so obviously about Renfri, I--

#geraskier #renfri #shrike #jaskier #jaskier dandelion #dandelion #geralt of rivia #the witcher #twn #the witcher netflix #ok but imagine the first time Jaskier uses the dagger to fight off bandits #and surprises geralt because he was sure this would be the time the bard was going to get himself killed #and perhaps up until that point geralt was like physically he may look like renfri but he's nothing like her #and then he sees jaskier's survival instinct kick in #and he witnesses jaskier's fierceness during a fight for the first time #the fire in his eyes when he strikes #the swiftness of his movements #and it's like he's SEEING renfri #omg but ok what if renfri and jaskier are twins and jaskier blames himself because renfri ran away and then all the awful shit happened to #her #and he thinks it's partly his fault because maybe he should've gone with her or maybe he should've protected her more from their parents #and stregobor #WHAT IF GERALT AT ONE POINT GIVES JASKIER THE HAIR BROOCH AND JASKIER JUST FUCKIN BREAKS DOWN #omg and that's why jaskier travels under a different name #different identity as a peniless bard cause stregobor is after him the remaining twin

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packedwithpackards · 9 months

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Mystery of Frances Appleton Packard

This past June I wrote about the importance of LGBTQ+ ancestors, stating that there are more queer ancestors within my family tree, and pointed out my fourth cousin five times removed, Frances Appleton Packard (1836-1902), noting that she "was always listed as single and never noted as marrying anyone, which can be a clue that the person is a queer individual". [1] In this post, I'd like to focus on her life.

Reprinted from my Packed with Packards! WordPress.

Frances was born in Brunswick, a town within Cumberland County, Maine on March 28, 1836 to Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr., a professor of Greek and Latin at Bowdoin College, and Frances Elizabeth Appleton, said to be a "woman of rare excellence". Unfortunately, when Frances A. was three years old, her mother would die for reasons not yet known. Frances A. next appears in the 1850 census, living with her father, Alpheus Sr., her five brothers (Charles A., William A., George L., Alpheus Jr., Robert L.), her stepmother Caroline W. Bartels (Alpheus Sr.'s second wife), and two boarders: 12-year-old George McLellan and 17-year-old Joanna Sillers. By 1860, however, she would not be living in the same household as her parents. Where she was living that year remains a mystery. But, one can make the supposition that she was still living in Brunswick, as she was living with her family in 1870 with her father and stepmother. This would be unchanged by 1880, as she still lived in Brunswick with her parents and an 18-year-old servant named Margaret Cusick in the household. [2]

Further evidence of her residence in Brunswick is made clear by one document: the school catalogue of Abbott Female Academy. She attended there between 1851 and 1852. She was among many married women, many of whom were from towns in New England or elsewhere. Abbott Academy, based in Andover, Massachusetts, was a well-known independent boarding prep school which was aimed at educating young women, with women proving key to its success, and was beginning to develop its robust curriculum. She would not be a student there the following term, from 1852 to 1853. She would only be briefly mentioned elsewhere, and additional records show that she was living in Bath, Maine (first on 21 Linden and later on 894 Washington), through the 1890s and into the early 1900s. In these records, she is never noted as marrying anyone else, always shown noted as being unmarried. [3] She would die on July 20, 1902 in Bath from bronchitis pneumonia and be noted as a housekeeper:

This image combines records from Maine, U.S., Death Records, 1761-1922 for Frances Appleton Packard, 1902, P, Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; 1892-1907 Vital Records; Roll Number: 43, Images 1-2. Charles, her brother, is noted as providing information about her.

She would be buried in Pine Grove Cemetery alongside her parents. Her Find A Grave entry only says two words currently: "Never married." [4] There's much more that can be said about her, however. A search on newspapers.com uncovered an obituary in the Sun-Journal which described her as a "woman of culture", a "deep student of literature" and member of the Fortnightly club. It also notes that she lived in Brunswick from her birth, in 1836 until the death of her father in 1884, and then moved to Bath, where she lived, meeting "many warm-hearted friends" which he kept until her death. It further notes her membership in the Congregational Church of Brunswick and later in the Winter street church in Bath. She was noted as dying, at the age of 63, at the home of her brother Charles who lived in Bath as well. Other notices pointed out that William, the sister of Frances, would administer his estate. [5]

We also learn, from the newspapers, that Frances visited the Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum in February 1898, where it turns out she worked as a "lady visitor" since at least January 1895. She is not to be confused with Frances Elizabeth Packard (1880-1971), daughter of Alpheus Jr. (Frances A.'s brother) and Elizabeth Derby Walcott who was said to be a "remarkably interesting young woman" who went on a trip to Europe, Asia, and Africa, from 1898 to 1899, and reportedly had "many friends" in Auburn and Lewiston. As for Frances A., one article confirmed her trip to Liverpool in 1899. She was clearly more than someone who was unmarried whose nickname was purportedly "Fanny", but a person who had a full life. [6]

The Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum was a place that helped out soldiers' orphans, and "half orphans of officers, soldiers, seamen and marines" who died while in combat or from wounds, injuries, or disease. This may be why Frances A. was listed as a housekeeper on her death record. It also included soldiers’ and sailor’s orphan children and grandchildren of any gender, specifically veterans of the Civil War. By January 1903, there were 69 children in the asylum plus 18 who were admitted and 25 taken in by other homes or relatives. Some children had been "farmed to outside homes" but came back to the asylum for "one reason or another".

In 1892, Frances A. voices her views on the aforementioned asylum in 1892 and shows that she is impressed by it [7]

In sum, much of the life of Frances Appleton Packard remains a mystery, complicated by the fact there were others who had similar names, leading to a propensity of false drops. Additionally, while she was noted as single throughout her life, I could find no indication that she ever had a partner. The supposition, based on what I said at the beginning of this post, that those listed as single may be queer is still a good one, but in the case of Frances A., all we can say is that she was single and unmarried throughout her life, as no evidence points to anything else. After all, thought her life, Maine had in place a sodomy law which imprisoned people for ten years, after a revision in 1840, for the crime of sodomy (anal sex, oral sex, or bestiality), laws which are usually used against gay or lesbian people. It would only be repealed in 1976. Even so, some have said that Maine has a "rich LGBT history that is relatively unknown". Interestingly, Brunswick is among the towns recommended for where LGBTQ people should move, while Bath is not. The exact history of LGBTQ people in those towns is still fuzzy, although one source said that "rural Maine gays who had little support in their small towns." That was likely the case for Brunswick and Bath, perhaps more for the latter than the former. [8] In sum, the story of Frances A., living in a town based in shipbuilding (Bath) and the center of activity for the Pejepscot region (Brunswick) remains unwritten, but this article is just the start.

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[1] There are other ancestors that I believe might be gay or otherwise queer, since they never married: my great-granduncles Harold "Harry" Cyrus Packard (1907-1975), Herbert Miles Packard (1898-1966), and Thomas "Tom" Theodore Packard (1902-1975) (this would be funny as he was apparently staunchly Republican), my great-grandaunts Olive Martha Packard (1896-1969) and Rachel May Packard (1900-1933), my second great-uncle Joseph B. Mills (1844-1900), my first cousin two times removed Giles Franklin Whitley (1911-1970) who died in 1970. The same is the case for my great-granduncle Joseph Winfield Packard (1885-1910), but that is no surprise as he only lived to the age of 24 before a freight train took his life. The same is the case for my first cousin three times removed Harry Tilson Packard (1879-1915), my first cousin three times removed, who died at the age of 36 in Los Angeles, and my second great aunt Mary M. Packard (1862-1887) who died at only 24 years old. I also have a nonbinary cousin, whose name I won't mention here, and on that note, I'd love to find some nonbinary ancestors, although that could be a challenge. There's also the interesting fact that my second great-grandaunt Margaret "Maggie" E. Mills (1854-1920) and father of great-grandaunt Thomas H. Crosgrove (b. 1858) only had a child when they adopted Mabel Hattie Packard (1892-1961), my great-grandaunt who is the child of Cyrus Winfield Packard (1852-1924) and Dorothy "Dora" Ann Mills (1849-1895), adopted by Thomas and Mabel at age 3. Also, Mary Jane Mills (b. 1854) my 2nd great-grand aunt was not married, from the little we know about her, nor was my second great-grand uncle, William Mills (b. 1861), my first cousin three times removed, Joseph Arthur Packard (1891-1911) who died at age 20, my first cousin three times removed, Walter Archie Packard (1903-1928) who died at age 25 when he was crushed by an elevator in the Montgomery Ward building in Albany. Additionally, my second great-granduncle B. Fred "Freddie" Packard (1858-1884) never married, nor did my first cousin four times removed Eva L. Packard (1876-1967), living in Kansas City for over 50 years, my first cousin four times removed Martha Elvira Packard (1880-1957), living in Kansas City like her sister Eva. The same is the case for my fourth great-grandaunt Ruby Packard (1799-1871) who never married and died of old age or my fourth great-grandaunt Sally Packard (1792-1868). Also, my first cousin three times removed Ida Martha Packard (1892-1973) and her husband Andrew Erastus Kenney (1891-1971) never had any children. Then there's Polly Nash Packard (1819-1868), my third great-grandaunt, termed to have a mental illness by censustakers and stayed at home for her whole life.

[2] 1850 United States Federal Census for Frances A Packard, Maine, Cumberland, Brunswick, Year: 1850; Census Place: Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 251; Page: 254b; 1860 United States Federal Census for Alpheus S Packard, Maine, Cumberland, Brunswick, Year: 1860; Census Place: Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M653_437; Page: 58; Family History Library Film: 803437; 1870 United States Federal Census for Frances A Packard, Maine, Cumberland, Brunswick, Year: 1870; Census Place: Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M593_539; Page: 75A; 1880 United States Federal Census for Francis A. Packard, Maine, Cumberland, Brunswick, 024, Year: 1880; Census Place: Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 477; Page: 55C; Enumeration District: 024. I went through all 120 pages of the 1860 United States Federal Census for Brunswick and didn't see anyone who was Frances. Interestingly, there is a family led by a 45-year-old John Mills and 30-year-old Mary Mills on image 80 (of 120).

[3] U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1924 for Frances A Packard, Massachusetts, Abbott Female Academy, 1879 (date of publication), Image 174 (and page 48); U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1924, Massachusetts, Abbott Female Academy, 1879 (date of publication), Image 176; https://archive.org/details/memorialalpheuss00litt/page/10/mode/2up (on page 10); U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 for Frances A Packard, Maine, Bath, 1897, Bath, Maine, City Directory, 1897, Image 134 (Page 131); Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., Book Indexes to Passenger Lists, 1899-1940, (002) Aug. 26, 1899-June 30, 1900, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Book Indexes to Boston Passenger Lists, 1899-1940; Microfilm Serial: T790; Microfilm Roll: 2, Image 148; U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 for Frances A Packard, Maine, Bath, 1902, Bath, Maine, City Directory, 1902, Image 83 (page 161).

[4] Maine, U.S., Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, 1780-1980 for Frances Packard Appleton, Annis, George F-Austin, John B, Images 194 and 1035.

[5] "Obituary of Miss Frances Appleton Packard, dying at home of her brother, Charles" clip from Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, 21 Jul 1902, Page 7; "Death notices" clip from Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, 30 Jul 1902, Page 5; "William A. Packard is administrator of his sister's estate" clip from Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, 05 Dec 1902, Page 2. She wasn't mentioned in her father's obituary in 1884 weirdly enough.

[6] She is mentioned as a lady visitor at the asylum on page 5 of this report. Also, the "Appleton-Aiken family papers (1806-1934)" Finding Aid put together by the University of Michigan Clements Library, she is listed as unmarried. Also see: "Frances visits the home" clip from Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, 26 Feb 1898, Page 18; "Frances elected as a "lady visitor"" clip from The Lewiston Daily Sun, Lewiston, Maine, 08 Jan 1895, Page 6; "Passengers return from Liverpool" clip from Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts, 23 Sep 1899, Page 4. This article is about the other Frances: "Frances returns from a trip abroad" clip from Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, 14 Oct 1899, Page 8. This Frances was covered in the newspaper more, as in 1901, it was noted that Florence Gallagher, Elise P. Packard, and Jessy L. McClellan, all women who seemed to be unmarried, were Frances' guests at the Mere Point House (see "Frances entertains guests at Mere Point House" clip from Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, 20 Jul 1901, Page 12). It was also shown that this Frances had been to other parties at the house, including one sailed by a Mr. Packard (see "Frances presents a gift" clip from Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, 02 Aug 1895, Page 8; "Opens cottage at Mere Point" clip in Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, 25 Jun 1901, Page 3). This Frances also seemed to be supportive of temperance (see "Elected to temperance temple" clip in Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, 15 Jan 1898, Page 6). This Frances purportedly crossed the Atlantic with Alpheus Jr. during his travels (see page 200 of T.D.A. Cockerwell's Biographical Memoir of Alpheus Spring Packard 1838-1905). She is also not to be confused with the daughter of William Alfred Packard (Frances E's brother) and Susan Breeze Gallagher also named Frances Appleton Packard (born c. 1865) who died at the age of 17 in October 1882.

[7] Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Military and Naval Asylum At Bath, ME. 1892 (Augusta: Burleigh & Flynt, 1892), 8.

[8] Alan Woods in his "The 7 Best Towns in Maine for LGBT Families" article recommends Augusta, Bangor, Bar Harbor, Brunswick, Ogunquit, Portland, and Rockland. Also see "Pride Maine LGBT History: Life and Activism in the 1970s, a panel discussion and exhibit", "Maine LGBT History: Life & Activism in the 70s. Part One", "LGBTQ+ History in Maine: A Documentary History Reader", "LGBT History in Maine 1856-1984", "Great Towns for LGBT Couples in Maine", "Bath library celebrates pride month, marks LGBTQ+ history in Maine".

#lgbtq #packard #ancestors #genealogy #ancestry #family history #genealogists #family tree #housekeepers #asylums #queer community #queer history

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sablebay · 10 months

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winter, 1910

the train from britchester was a long one, and the sun was beginning its descent by the time henry made it home to brindleton bay. he has promised he'd be home in time for winterfest dinner. no sooner had he rounded the corner from the station to the familiar main street, then he heard his name shouted across the square. "henry!" at the end of the block stood a gangly mary - a teenager now, if only just - and henry stopped in his tracks when he realized how quickly his little sister had grown in his absence. he had little time to recover from the revelation before she had barreled into his chest, knocking him back a step with the force, hugging him fiercely. "you must tell me everything! mother reads the letters you send, but i know you don't tell her any of the interesting bits," she insisted, her grin wide. henry laughed, "it's school, mary, not a party." "it's university," she corrected, "so, yes it is. louis appleton says so." he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and began the walk back to the farm. "well, i guess if if louis appleton says so..."

#gp2 #sims 4 decades challenge #1910s #sims 4 #sims4edit #sims 4 gameplay #sim: henry #sim: mary #mary may have been an oopsie baby but tbh i sort of love her

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bobbie-robron · 7 months

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It’s ALWAYS the same pattern with you. Behave exactly how you want all of the time and without any thought for anyone else and stuff the consequences.

Jack goes on about how Victoria misses Robert since he seems to be always at work these days so he asks that he pick her up from school. Unfortunately that doesn’t work out as it completely slips Robert’s mind which leads to some unpleasant remarks from Jack (the gist: Robert is selfish and only thinks about himself). Robert admits the continuous work keeps his mind off of Katie. Well, forget her and move on, concentrate on the here and now… their family.

08-Jul-2004

#classic ED #classic ED Robert’s story #20040708 #episode 3786 #classic ED 2004 #200408 #robert sugden #karl davies #jack sugden #louise appleton #terry woods #robert your sister misses you #oops robert forgets to pick up victoria at school #you are so selfish robert 😠#move on robert #letting jack down

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glitched213 · 2 years

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A Halloween Appleton for my sister :D

#digital art #art #artists on tumblr #cute #halloween #appleton #pokemon

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azvolrien · 2 years

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The graveyard near my house is somewhat out of the way and unlikely to be much of a tourist attraction; consequently, while there’s a local ‘Friends of’ group that does weeding and stuff, it’s one of the many things rather neglected by the city council. It does, however, have a few residents of a certain quiet significance, including:

Alison Cunningham, Robert Louis Stevenson’s childhood nurse; without her firing his imagination when he was a frail little boy, we might not have got classics like Treasure Island and all its many (many, many) derivative works. (Stevenson himself is buried in Samoa, so you’d have to go a bit further to visit his grave.)

Sir Edward Appleton, discoverer of the Appleton Layer. I have no idea what the Appleton Layer is, but he won a Nobel Prize for it so it must be pretty important.

The Cadell sisters, contemporaries and fellow students of Elsie Inglis as some of the first women to study medicine in Scotland and prominent in the suffrage movement

Ella Pringle, the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Also pictured are a few graves that I just found interesting, such as:

William Bland, Kitchener’s Bodyguard who was presumably killed in the Boer War. Why he has a different surname to the rest of his family, I do not know.

William Christian, died ‘through the effects of carriage accident’. Did he fall off one, get run over by one, what?

Private W.R. Simpson, a cavalry soldier killed in 1915. You ever read/seen War Horse? Yeah.

James Scott Harris, died at Craiglockhart in 1918. Between the date, Craiglockhart being the location of a psychiatric hospital specialising in treating shell-shocked officers, and the lack of any further detail... There may be a very sad story there.

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Séances At The White House? Why These First Ladies Turned To The Occult

From Mary Todd Lincoln to Jane Pierce, They Were Swept Up in the Spiritualism Movement of the 19th Century—a Belief That Living Souls Can Contact the Dead.

— By Parissa DJangi | April 24, 2024

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, sits with his wife Mary Todd and three children. Mary Todd turned to Spiritualism, the belief that departed souls can interact with the living, to process her grief after the death of her second youngest son, William, in February 1862. Photograph By New York Historical Society, Bridgeman Images

The White House has hosted its share of prominent people: politicians, writers, musicians, scientists––and mediums.

Reflecting Americans’ belief in spirits unseen, some of the country’s first families held séances at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They nursed their grief with the help of mediums, demonstrating that séances aren’t only about the deceased; they’re also about the living.

Spiritualism Comes To The White House

On January 6, 1853, newly elected president Franklin Pierce and his wife Jane experienced every parent’s worst nightmare. Their only surviving child, 11-year-old Bennie, died in a horrific train accident in Massachusetts.

Jane Pierce struggled to adapt to life without her child. She even WROTE him letters as she secluded herself in her private quarters in the White House.

Having endured the deaths of two sons prior to her husband Franklin Pierce’s presidency and witnessing the death of her sole surviving child just two months before Franklin’s inauguration in 1853, First Lady Jane Pierce turned to Spiritualism to reconnect with her sons. Photograph By Library of Congress

As Pierce fiercely mourned her son, a new religious movement took root across the country: Spiritualism, or the belief that the living could communicate with the dead. As historian Molly McGarry wrote in Ghosts of Futures Past, “a faith in Spiritualism and the experience that the dead continued to connect with the living” resonated in an America with an extensive mourning culture and “allowed some 19th-century Americans a new way of being in the world.”

Letter from Jane Means (Appleton) Pierce to her deceased son, Benjamin Pierce, 1853 January 30

Spiritualism’s popularity stemmed partly from 15-year-old Maggie and 11-year-old Katie Fox, sisters from Hydesville, New York. Though the pair lived relatively ordinary lives with their large family, they soon began making extraordinary claims. In 1848, they alleged that mysterious rappings in their family’s home came from a supernatural source: discarnate spirits. The sisters insisted they could communicate with them, interpreting the noises as a spectral form of Morse code.

The Fox sisters’ allegations electrified Americans eager to connect with deceased loved ones—individuals such as Jane Pierce. Fascinated by their narrative, she invited them to Washington.

No one knows what exactly occurred between Pierce and the Fox sisters. But the White House session may have mirrored the Fox sisters’ other séances, which commenced with guests sitting in a circle, holding one another’s hands, and reciting a prayer. Then, the rappings would begin, and the sisters would allegedly lift the veil on the spirit world.

The Lincolns’ Many Tears

National and personal tragedy converged in the thick of the Civil War when Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln buried one of their children. On February 20, 1862, 11-year-old Willie Lincoln died in the White House after battling typhoid fever for weeks.

The boy’s death devastated both his parents, but Mary Todd Lincoln’s grief was especially debilitating. She stayed in bed for weeks and couldn’t bear to attend his funeral. But even when she rejoined society, Lincoln longed for a reunion with her deceased son.

Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the 16th president, was known to openly dabble in Spiritualism. Photograph By Library of Congress

So, she turned to mediums. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald used surviving documents to calculate that the first lady may have held eight séances in the White House.

One occurred in December 1862, when Lincoln hosted the medium Nettie Colburn for a séance in the Red Room.

Colburn later claimed that the president joined the séance––and that, in her trance-like state, she didn’t limit herself to communicating with Willie Lincoln. Instead, the spirits she channeled urged the president to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which they predicted would “be the crowning event of his administration and his life.”

In April 1863, President Lincoln allegedly hosted a séance in the red room of the White House to call upon the spirits to guide him in political matters. Photograph By France Ben Jamin Johnston, Library of Congress

Sessions with Colburn and other mediums stoked the first lady’s faith that souls survive death. She even saw Willie in her dreams. “Willie lives,” she told her half-sister Emilie Todd Helm. “He comes to me every night and stands at the foot of the bed with the same sweet, adorable smile he always has had.”

The Last Gasp of Spiritualism

The White House was again in a state of mourning during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Coolidge’s 16-year-old son Calvin played a game of tennis––but he wasn’t wearing socks with his shoes. A blister formed on a toe and festered, and the infection turned septic. He died on July 7.

So, did the Coolidges employ a medium to contact their son? Harry Houdini, the famous illusionist, believed they had. He deplored spiritualism, séances, and mediums, all of which underwent a revival in the wake of World War I and the influenza pandemic. He was on a quest to expose mediums and psychics as the charlatans he believed them to be.

Illusionist Harry Houdini (left) spent the last years of his life debunking paranormal claims. In 1926, he testified in a Congressional hearing considering a ban on fortune-tellers. Photograph By National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress

His greatest show in 1926 was when he testified in a Congressional hearing considering a ban on fortune-tellers. During the hearing, it was alleged that Jane Coates, a medium in Washington, D.C., had said, “I know for a fact that there have been spiritual séances held at the White House with President Coolidge and his family.”

Coolidge’s friends vehemently denied the allegation, drawing a clear line between what was acceptable––and what wasn’t. Séances, it seemed, crossed the line of respectability in a changing America.

By World War II, spiritualism no longer attracted the acolytes it once had, and White House séances became a curious footnote in history.

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