Imagine your great-great-grandparent’s ghost giving advice at their grave.
Advice like . . .
- cheating chaos
- capturing happiness
Walking up to my great-great-grandad’s tombstone, I imagined the Civil War veteran whispering.
A time travel tour ensued in Austin’s oldest cemetery.
His tombstone nudged me to Google his name, Alpheus B. Nuckols, Austin, TX.
One search shows he . . .
- was a confederate veteran from Virginia
- moved to Texas in 1891 and opened a photography studio
- bought a house on Eighth Street in 1898
How do you go from defeat as a Virginia confederate soldier in 1865 and grow a photography business in Texas a few years later?
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