Journeys | Jody Ferguson Blog

Eugene Sledge’s “With the Old Breed,” is a visceral account of his days island hopping across the Pacific as a U.S. Marine in 1944-45.

John Graham Patterson was a great uncle on my mother’s side. He was affectionately known by most as “Uncle Johnnie.” Johnnie was born in...

My paternal great grandmother was Josephine Tingley Linscott....

Holiday traditions are what make Christmas special. Every year growing up, we knew where we would be, who we would see, and what we would be

Reading (pronounced like the color 'Red') is a small town nestled in the Allegheny foothills of southern Pennsylvania.

This November 11 marks Veterans Day, a celebration of the men and women who have served and are currently serving. The day marks the armisti

A mile high, big, clear skies, bright stars...the Davis Mountains of West Texas rank among my favorite places in the world.

A great uncle on my mother’s side of the family was Colonel Walter Russell Hensey, Jr. known to the family simply as “Uncle Russ.”

My father’s mother was a Linscott. Her family came to the New World and settled in Maine in the 1600s.

My maternal grandfather was Henry Hamilton “Hal” Dewar of San Antonio, Texas. Hal Dewar was an investment banker in San Antonio...

My paternal great-grandmother was Sarah Jane Hume Ferguson of Reading, Pennsylvania. She was a remarkable woman, who had a photographic...

My wife’s great uncle, Mikhail Babushkin, was a Soviet aviator and test pilot.

My paternal great-grandfather was Walter Keene Linscott. He was born in Washington, Iowa in 1872...

Josephine Linscott Ferguson was my father’s mother. We affectionately called her Mama Jo....

My maternal great grandfather was Robert Ball...

Keene was born in Houston, Texas on April 28, 1934 to Harry Weidel Ferguson and Josephine Linscott Ferguson.

Plummer Dewar was my maternal great-great grandfather. He was born on Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1815...

My maternal great-great grandfather Henry Kinney came to Austin, Texas from Cortland County in New York in 1849...

Harry Ferguson, my father's father, lived one of those rags-to-riches stories...