Photograph of 13 unlucky cows killed by a lightning strike. From book: Lightning, and petroleum storage tanks, etc. by West Dodd; 1920. Internet Archive.
Some consider the number 13 to be unlucky, but then some folks think cows are useless animals. Both are wrong.
On 16 March of 2006 after losing my twin sister to cancer, I began writing a blog, for it had been a pastime she greatly enjoyed at the end of her life. At first I had no idea where my writing might lead me. My first few posts were photographs or short poems.
Then I was inspired to write about history. That pastime seems to be in my blood, for my paternal grandmother and my father both loved the stories about New Hampshire.
