Almost every culture on the face of the Earth celebrates some form of this ancient festival Lugnasadh. Christianized, it became Lammas and much easier to pronounce. It is, like the American holiday Thanksgiving, a celebration of of gratefulness but for the first fruits, not the last harvest...

An item on my bucket list but also for my heritage album. My sons are Mayflower descendants and their 11 times great grandparents, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins knew Cape Cod intimately. I want to take my boys there on a genealogy trip and have some fun. Their cousin's aunt lives at...