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Halloween skit in 1973 at St. Agnes Academy, Houston, Texas - cropped from the 1974 Veritas yearbook.  That's me in the middle in the d...

October 19, 2023, would have been the 95th birthday of my mother, Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape (1928-2019) . This photo was probably taken...

My aunt, Jo Ann (Sister Jean Marie) Guokas is 93 today!  Here is a photo of her from 1946 - she is at the lower right.  She is with her comp...

A picture from a little over 40 years ago, in March 1983!  Breathless is on  Contigo , his 27-foot 1969 Pearson sailboat he'd bought in ...

Those of you who follow my blog may have noticed I haven't been posting very much.  My spouse fell and fractured the top of his left fem...

Recently I learned that Louisiana maps from the Civil War era had been digitized by the National Archives ( announcement in September 2021 )...

Frederick Henry Pape (1929-2017) and daughter Karen Pape with Barney the basset hound and grandson/nephew Eric Bolme, 717 Rawlins, Lancaster...

Amanda Pape and Eric Bolme, Granbury, Texas, August 12, 2019 © Amanda Pape - 2023 - e-mail me!

Eric Bolme escorts his maternal grandmother Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape (1928-2019) to her seat at his uncle (her son) Mark Pape's we...

The photograph below was recently posted in the "Corpus Christi, Texas History" group by John. L. Gower, the photographer, who too...