Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I spent the past couple months immersed in World War I. My first task was to reformat my paternal grandmother's World War I diary for ...

Florence Green (a.k.a Mudder) celebrated her 26th birthday in France in 1918. Normally, being in your twenties in France and celebrating a...

December 26  Happier today than I have been for some time, got a letter from Peany and such a sweet one too, also one from E with a handker...

November 16, 1918  Got up at 6am breakfast in our room, got a taxi and made our train 6K, arrived at Chaumont 3pm. Found on arriving, P had...

On Oct. 24, 1918, nurse Florence Green ("Mudder" to her grandchildren) received orders to go to Evac 8 on the Meuse-Argonne fron...

August 15, Thursday  The guns sure did run all night. I heard this morning that 88th Division went over the top about 4am. Howard came ov...

August 3, 1918  No patients as yet, we breakfasted at 8am.  Heard this morning that Dr. Wood, an M.G.H friend of ours was very near. Gold...

Here’s a puzzler that could be on the Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the Museum:” The object, almost 100 years old, measures four inches ...