Author Archives: nfohl

I was reading the excellent Carlisle:  Its History and Heritage by Ruth Chamberlin Wilkins and came across the founding of the mill on my property on Bedford Road, Carlisle.  I have excerpted it below by hand. Product Details (Amazon.com)  Unknown … Continue reading →

I did a bit of digging for my prior post and when I Google searched for William Koford, I stumbled on the DigitalCommonwealth website.  It is wonderful and pretty well organized considering it appears to be structured via an automated … Continue reading →

I mentioned in this post here  that my parent’s had found some old photos that Alice Koford had taken and given them in the late 1960’s when they purchased the property on South Street in Carlisle.  The photos were taken … Continue reading →

I think my whole family is just chocka-block full of great people – but today, I want to do a little timely bragging about my SiL Tenley. She started a photography business 3 years ago with a vision of combining … Continue reading →

As part of my drive across the country recently, I took a fair amount of video from the Thomson Mill in Shedd OR and the Thomas Kay Mill (Willamette Heritage Center in Salem OR). I realized this morning that I … Continue reading →

Spring is flirting with us but my thought this morning (Sunday) looking out was that things were still pretty frozen.  We got above freezing a very little bit today but the ground is frozen very, very hard still 22 days … Continue reading →

EDIT – so much for winter being on its way out – it has started bucketing snow here in the late afternoon.  We probably have an 1/8th or 1/4 inch already – whoops! Spring has not yet arrived, but Winter … Continue reading →

I pulled into Carlisle today after driving 4,343 miles in 9 days (including one very fun rest day in Solvang CA).  Woot!  a very fun trip but I am also pretty tired. I listened to 6 full Audio Books from … Continue reading →