Thursday, December 2, 2021
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Captain "Hell Roaring Mike" Healy
Interesting story in today's (October 20, 2021) Seattle Times about the Seattle-based Coast Guard ice breaker Healy, named after the legendary former slave, Captain "Hell Roaring Mike" Healy, the first Black American to command a U.S. government ship, the wooden-hulled U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear, from 1886 to 1895.
Turns out Hell Roaring Mike had what looks to be an Amazon parrot that accompanied him on his voyages:
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
May You Live In Interesting Times: A New World
May You Live In Interesting Times: A New World: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1949 to 1960. Coming Labor Day from Seattle's Blue Parrot Books. The fourth and last volume of the Ostrogorsky - Ivanauskas family history and archive distilled from nine hundred family photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, World War II Allied bombing, and train and transport ship journeys to the New World. Available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller.
Saturday, May 29, 2021
May You Live In Interesting Times -- Purported Chinese Curse
May You Live In Interesting Times -- purported Chinese curse. In the process of wrapping up my Covid winter project, a four volume family history and archive distilled from nine hundred family photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, and World War II Allied bombing.
Thursday, May 27, 2021
May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1945 to 1950
Coming July 4th from Seattle's Blue Parrot Books. May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1945 to 1950. By Michael Ostrogorsky, Ph.D.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1918 to 1945
May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1918 to 1945.
Coming from Seattle's Blue Parrot Books April 15th, second of a four volume family history and archive distilled from a collection of 900 photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, and World War II Allied bombing. Available for pre-order now from your favorite bookseller.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
May You Live In Interesting Times
I thank my grandfather, Russian Cavalry Captain Vassilij Yakovyevitch Ostrogorsky, for so assiduously, against all odds, collecting and preserving this incredible collection!
Cavalry Captain Vassilij Yakovyevitch Ostrogorsky, right. Crimea, circa 1920.