We had a great discussion about the Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the Confederacy, etc. when I recalled a story from Mom and Dad’s retirement trip out west to Seattle back in 1990.
They were at Mom’s cousin Charlotte’s house with another D.A.R. lady and they went on throughout the evening about ancestry, their connections to Revolutionary War soldiers and this and that while my Dad, mild-mannered Walt Wintin, sat quietly on the sideline minding his own business when one of the hostesses asked if he had ever researched his family tree? 🌳 Without hesitation his response was, “Well, we started researching but we found so many horse thieves and loose women that we quit looking.”
Walt’s Diner 