Once A Knight ...

      Re-posting the blog on Amy Geneux Keck brought some riveting -- and surprising -- responses.       Oh, gosh, we often don't know w...

         The dates January 7 and January 12 are special to our family, and will be for as long as we're here.       Those dates, in 195...

    A trip back in time, and another visit with Dad.      The name of the camp is Les Mazures. Remember that. It is the key to this story.  ...

          Look at these two photos -- from 1942 -- and know that they are special to us, and that, finally, we have copies.      These tw...

    Louis Van Thyn -- Dad -- was born 100 years ago today. He lived 89 years, one month, three weeks, a full life of happy times, much adven...

    Leo Van Thyn, a native Dutchman who lives in Canada, is our family historian -- genealogy is one of his interests -- and it is through h...