Today is International Bath Day (nice, but I'm a shower person myself), and also National Strawberry Shortcake Day (not my favorite dessert but I would never refuse it). But much more interestingly, to me at least, today is Family History Day. I just finished watching Finding Your Roots, one of my favorite series on PBS, and that, plus this special day has inspired me to share a story from my family history. Way way back, in the early 1700s, my great, great / / great grandfather, Phillip Von Steinmetz came to the Americas from Germany. As the story goes, he didn't exactly come willingly. He was arrested for killing the king's deer. I like to think he wasn't a terrible criminal, but was merely trying to feed his family, but those details are lost in the mists of time. Somehow he managed to escape from prison and hot footed it to the colonies. He then fought in and survived the Revolutionary War, married, fathered several children, and had several grandchildren. And there it is, the earliest story I know about my family. To give credit where due, my aunt, my mother's sister, did the research that uncovered this story.
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