Coming home to Paw Paw

Coming Home to Paw PawA family visit, a festival, and the names that keep coming back Some towns you pass through. Paw Paw is the kind you carry. This past weekend we stood in Wyoming Cemetery under Illinois sky and then walked into the annual Pawpaw Festival like we had been expected. We were. The Prentices who still live in … Read More

The Civil War Diaries of John Newton Prentice: A Union Soldier’s Daily Record from Fort Donelson to Sherman’s March to the Sea

Personal Introduction from Scott Prentice (Great-Grandson of John Newton Prentice)My name is Scott L. Prentice, and I am the great-grandson of John Newton Prentice, a Union soldier who served in Company A of the 57th Illinois Volunteer Infantry from 1861 to 1865.Like so many in our family, military service runs deep in our blood. My great-grandfather answered President Lincoln’s call … Read More