Karen Zach

Had 4-5 ideas for the next few articles so it was kind of difficult to come up with which I desired to do, but this Civil War soldier won-out. Hopefully,…

More than likely told you before some of the ways I choose a subject to concentrate an article on, and today, I got really crazy, just called up a January…

One of the most interesting families in the area was the Talbot family and much has been written about Capt. Henry Harp Talbot (son of Courtney and Elizabeth Harp) but…

Several of you who follow my work, also likely know I write an OTD on the Crawfordsville and Montgomery County History Facebook page, highlighting something that happened each day in…

First one to admit this, but I sometimes avoid common names when I’m searching a subject for an article, but I’ve been avoiding this fella’ and his wife for quite…

Ahhh, those Christmases past! Do you have special ones? I sure do! Overall memories, too, like when my dad was the rural mail carrier at Waveland and we’d have the…

Tragedies followed this Montgomery Countian through life The Ball commonality seems to equal blue eyes The Ball family in MoCo has indeed been my subject before; however, this is the…

Just love this picture from the Crawfordsville District Public Library’s database and wanted to tell you today about two local families who were in the barber world, some in this…

By Karen Zach Ten families centered in Rice’s Fort near Washington County, PA (near present day Pittsburg) on Short Creek for protection from Native American Indians during uprisings. It was…