

Love in Mid-Life: Charles and Florence Loring
In the 1890s, Charles Loring and Florence Barton may have seemed an unusual match. He was, after all, an “elderly” widower of 62 when...


A Civil War Love Story
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, young men in every state, North and South, heeded the call for volunteers. Twenty-four-year-old...


Ellen and Sir Joseph Francis
Before Lakewood was founded in 1871, Ellen Francis and Sir Joseph Francis stood on a bluff on the east side of Bde Maka Ska (formerly...