Pilgrims and Pioneers: A Sad story with a Happy Ending!

Welcome To Pilgrims and Pioneers!

After many years of researching my family geneaology I have been lucky enough to discover actual information about my relatives that lived in the Pilgrim Era and the Pioneer Era- while many people also have realtives from those eras- many do not know their names or where they lived- actually seeing the proof in print makes you much more aware of who they really were.
After discovering these relatives it of course made me curious to learn more about the eras that they lived in and what their lives were like as, the history I learned in grade school had long since been forgotten.
I decided to start this blog for others who are also interested in these eras.
Some of the information here will be actual facts about my realtives and some will be information about the eras in general that I have found on the web.
I hope you will enjoy traveling back in time with me!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

A Sad story with a Happy Ending!

Last night while vending at our Farmer's Market we had the door open and I kept hearing a little "peeping" sound. I looked out the door and there was a baby Mallard duckling frantically running around the parking lot. Earlier in the day a mama duck and her babies had fallen into a sewer grate next to the market. A good samaritin had pulled off the cover and rescued the mama and her babies but appaprently this little one got left behind. I went out to get a better look at it and it promptly took off. I was so worried it was going to get hit by a car or starve to death I was heart broken.
But it was this little ducky's lucky day. My vending neighbor lives on a farm and has a Muscovie duck that has babies just a little older than this one. She went out into the parking lot and captured the baby duck- put it in a box and was taking it home to her mama duck to raise with her others.
Talk about being a lucky duck!