Places to Visit — Pasadena-Orosi-Tulare-California From Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena to the Central Valley farms and towns where the family took root for decades, real places remain to visit.
Places to Visit — Iowa Little remains of Springdale today, but a few traces survive: Barak and Mary Smith’s graves at Hickory Grove Cemetery, and, across the road, Scattergood Friends School, still open.
Places to Visit — Collins | Gowanda, New York The meetinghouse, the stained glass window, the burial ground… These are physical traces of the family’s New York years that still exist today. [Clarance, would love any suggestions for places to include here]
The Three Whalebone Canes A Pierson family mystery: three whalebone canes, carved for three brothers. We know where one is today. A letter hints at a second. The third has never been found.
Sixty Years of Letters Sixty-six years of letters. Crops and courtships, tornadoes and war, cheese-making and grief. An extraordinary window into one family’s daily life, in their own words.
Places to Visit — Massachusetts & Vermont From a 17th-century Quaker meeting house on Cape Cod to a burial ground in the Green Mountains, there are physical traces of this family’s story that you can still visit. SELECTED LOCATIONS Find these and more on the interactive family map. The Chickering House · 55 Haven Street,…
Our Stories Source materials regarding Libbie’s childhood. These photographs and documents introduce Libbie Mercer Pierson (1863-1947), offering a glimpse into her life, character, and place within the Pierson family story. Through images and contextual materials, we see not only how Libbie was represented in her time, but also the social world she inhabited. This section invites…
