cool family- public health

[threadwalker]

So I found out that my grandfather is in Wikipedia. He's a badass. They don't list a fraction of what he's done.

My mom is also doing awesome stuff. Just had a couple articles out this week. I like this latest one from the Boston Globe describing a program she helped develop in Chicago that treats urban violence like a disease and public

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[sapphohestia]

If he doesn't mind (and you don't mind giving up the rights to the image), you could probably submit a photo of him.

[threadwalker]

There's a thought. I have one or two incriminating ones... but I'll probably be nicer than that. :)

[dougygyro]

After you mentioned this, I had to look up my own family. I have two pirates Störtebeker von Baden in my family as well as Richard Worley.

I have a similarly colorful collection of professions in my family which lead to similarly colorful conversations. Fun isn't it? I'm so thankful to have the motley collection of overeducated misanthropes in my family.

[threadwalker]

cool! Yay Pirates. :)

Yeah... if we get into ancestors it gets insane for me. Named after relative Giles Corey- pressed to death with stones in the Salem witch trials (famous last words were "more weight"), various Mayflower passengers on both sides (including the guy who fell off), one of Washington's captains in the Revolutionary War (we still have a letter that includes a thank you from Martha for the pie recipe). Other revolutionaries, people who hung out with the Transendentalists, loaned Whitman money... the Alcotts (and the actual Marches who lived in town).

Then in Europe it gets silly- Stuarts, Black Douglases, Robert the Bruce... many of them killing each other over the dinner table. Apparently traced back to the King of the PIcts (though one must take these things with a grain of salt). No pirates though. Mad Scots yes, pirates no. :(

[sapphohestia]

I didn't find much on my dad's side of the family, though my mom's got more interesting.

[threadwalker]

interesting is definitely the words. :) Also dodgy in a very colorful way.

[catachthonian]

Wow, and your grandfather has a great name, too! A bit Dickensian, perhaps?

[threadwalker]

Yes... well it is an old English name- sailors.