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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 3d

Blog post from John Hankins to his wife Susan written at Trenton in December 1835. Apparently he was traveling during miserably cold weather in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania

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#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Trenton #OnePlaceStudy

1835 December - Letter from John Hankins to Susan Hankins

On December 3, 1835, John Hankins wrote to his wife Susan in Damascus, Wayne County, Pennsylvania from Trenton, New Jersey. [1] He had take...

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Caturday from Henry and Jackson (who is NOT happy about having to share the top of the cat tree with his little bother!)

#Caturday

An orange and white cat and a brown and white cat sharing the top of a cat tree. The brown and white can is not a happy camper!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14d

This is mind-blowing. Truly. What a story.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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Indivisible MoCoWoMen ❌🤴 @indivmocowomen.bsky.social · 15d

The Graveyard in Olney, MD
Created & designed by Dana Noga. This is just a small portion of the tombstones that represent all the things that have been destroyed by the current administration.
Zoom in - the shadows make some eerily difficult to read.

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IndivisibleMontgomery @indivisiblemontmd.bsky.social · 16d

Frogs for Freedom all around the world - -

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16d

Frogs for freedom. #NoKings

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16d

LEFT: Citizens assembling in Washington, DC to deride Donald J. Trump with a protest.

RIGHT: Citizens assembling in Washington, DC to celebrate Donald J. Trump with a military birthday parade.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16d

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 16d

#NoKings #Bethesda #Maryland #NIH

This is what DEMOCRACY looks like

RFK Listen to Doctors Not Your Brainworm

3 dinosaurs with signs including Clean Up in Aisle 47 and the only minority destroying America is Billionaires

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 16d

#NoKings #Bethesda #Maryland #NIH

This is what DEMOCRACY looks like

D is for Dictator The number of the day is 34 felonies. With Sesame Street characters

Real Men Support women in Science
I Defended my Dissertation Not a Dictator

Person in Plague Doctor Costume

Sign says Plague Doctors and Gravediggers lover Anti-VAXX Leaders

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IndivisibleMontgomery @indivisiblemontmd.bsky.social · 17d

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 19d

Photos from 1912 in Wichita Kansas on my blog at pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/10/earl...

#FriendsUniversity #Genealogy #Photography #Basketball #MayDay #Wichita #Kansas

Early 1900s Call Album - page 45

Sometime in about 1904, someone in my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's (1895-1962) family started taking photographs and placing them in an a...

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 20d

200 postcards ready to mail to Pennsylvania reminding people to vote #PostcardsToSwingStates #Vote #Pennsylvania

Two piles of postcards. Front of cards say Pennsylvania Votes

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23d

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 24d

Bethesda MD - a No Kings day event has been added at the NIH Metro Station next Saturday - info is at www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Lots of public transportation - Red Line on the Metro, Ride on buses 30, 33, 34 and 45, and Metro Bus M70 (which replaced the J2 buses).

#NoKings #Bethesda

NO KINGS NIH --Defend Medical Research · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 27d

Next set of photos are on my blog at pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/10/earl... taken in abt 1910

I love this photo of my grandmother's sister - ready to go ice skating. I don't know about anyone else - but I wouldn't want to try ice skating in a long skirt!

#Genealogy #Photography #IceSkating

Two young women from 1910 dressed for ice skating. They are wearing long skirts, shirts with heavy sweaters and hats. Their ice skates are hanging by the straps over their shoulders. The photo looks to have been taken in a photo studio with a backdrop hanging down and covering part of the wood flooring.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Oct 4

This feels like a trap.

Massachusetts Mom Shocked After High School Sends Sons Home With 'Military Consent' Forms

www.comicsands.com

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · Oct 4

Halo Haynes

Photographed remotely from Tankspace to Bethesda

#Photography #ModelPhotography #HaloHaynes #Tankspace

A woman with long blond hair in a gold dress posing underwater. She is surrounded by bubbles

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · Oct 3

Next set of family photos is up at pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/10/earl...

Photos are from 1911 at Silver Lake, Wyoming County, New York. And I'll just say I'm glad I didn't try swimming in the "bathing suits" the women are wearing!

#Genealogy #Photography #SilverLake #NewYork

Man in a suit and women in house dress on a dock at a lake - my great grandparents Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe

Six people in the teens to early twenties standing in a lake in 1911 style bathing suits - my grandmother, Evelyn Clara Call, is 2nd from the right

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Renée Carl @easteuromutt.bsky.social · Oct 3

What is the definition of essential when it comes to a shutdown? twelvekey.com/2025/10/02/c...

Closed for Now, But Absolutely Essential

Last week I had great pleasure doing several hours of research in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. My research took me into specialized War of 1812 and Civil War records that are n…

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · Oct 2

Program Cover for Tivoli's Pleasure on Parade show in Sydney, Australia from 9 September 1937. My grandmother's cousin, Floyd Christy performed in the show! Huge thanks to the National Library of Australia that made it so easy for me to get a copy

#Genealolgy #Vaudeville

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · Oct 1

Some of them would

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 30

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 30

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · Sep 29

Next set of family photos are on my blog - cute photos of my Dad's cousins and a spectacular photo of the interior of a home (Still working on identifying who lived there!)

pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/09/earl...

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Photography #Stafford #NewYork

Interior photo of a family home - room closest to the camera has a piano, and striped wall paper. The other room has rocking chair and a side chair, big bay windows with light streaming in

Little girl in a garden with a large hoe - she is wearing a white dress and white hat

Little girl in a gingham plaid dress wearing a man's bowler hat

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Renée Carl @easteuromutt.bsky.social · Sep 28

Looking for a Sunday read? I have one for you: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

With NARA funding cuts, access to America’s memory is on the chopping block

The White House and Congress are proposing to fund record-keeping like it’s still 1999.

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