Chicken Scratchings

Searching for Polly

It was a shot in the dark and it is paying off! My ancestor Polly was a member of the Christian church as her son John Streeter Gleason mentioned in his biography and the...

Peculiar chirps

  Newly hatched chicks chirp almost constantly, creating a chorus of constant but meaningless chatter. Hens and roosters are mostly silent, except for specific times of day and purposes. The chicks learn when to...

Living your Dash

Those who have passed were real people, but often become a dash, birth dash death. That’s how we write their data, but that dash is their whole world. That’s all fine and good but what...

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Are you Chicken?

Are you Chicken? I am a chicken. Totally! I waited for over 20 years before doing anything that anyone else knew about…I was always listening on the sidelines but didn’t want to move into...