R. S. Baker's antique record blog

Along this journey of reconstructing the complicated lives of Fred W. Hager and Justin Ring, I assumed the two of them were a solid pair t...

It has been a difficult few months for me.  Since the beginning of April I dealt with serious panic attacks and crippling anxiety...but fi...

Well folks, here we are confined to our homes. Here in California we have been on lockdown for a bit longer than other places in the U.S. ...

In the last few weeks, a few interesting things have come along in my research. About a week and a half ago, a descendant of Charlie Carso...

In the last post I mentioned the recent news regarding the Hager scrapbook, so it seems fit to do a post solely on this matter.  After s...