Some Gave All: April 2021

Sunday, April 18, 2021

April 18, 1921. "Grave of Edith Barnett of New York City. An American Red Cross nurse who died in Siberia, Aug. 15, 1919. Monument placed at Tomsk, Siberia on April 18, 1921. Photograph taken on April 19, 1921"

Lex Anteinternet: Subscribe by email "gadget" going away.

Lex Anteinternet: Subscribe by email "gadget" going away.:

Subscribe by email "gadget" going away.

Google seems pretty intent on destroying the Blogger format, which means that for people like me, who have blogged on blogger, we have a choice of ultimately finding a new blogging service (which is what I think Google would like for us to do) or continue to try to find work arounds.

Over 1,000 people subscribe to this blog by email. Come July, that feature will be dysfunctional thanks to Google:

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So, starting in July, your email subscriptions won't work any longer.

I'd suggest you opt for the RSS feed if you receive this by email so you keep getting the blog, if you like the blog. I'm sure a lot of people will simply drop off.

In the meantime, we'll look for a replacement gadget, but even though the work around allows for a new system, I'm not going to hand enter over 1000 email address as I do have a full time job, etc. You'll probably have to resubscribe if you like the blog, which is a good reason just to opt for the RSS feed.

And we'll look for an alternative platform, although we hate to do it as we do like this platform. Or frankly we'll ponder, if this and other things are going to destroy these blogs, doing what Google apparently wants us to do, and simply quit blogging.

Some Gave All

Some Gave All is one of a series of our blogs which are basically photographic in nature. The main blog, the "hub", is Holscher's Hub, which is a general photo site. The general blog that we have that receives the most viewing attention is Lex Anteinternet, which started off, and which also remains, a blog for the study of historical topics of the 1890-1920 time frame, but which also deals with about everything else. Our daily Wyoming history blog is Today In Wyoming's History.

We also have four specific photograph blogs with dedicated topics, those being Churches of the West, Courthouses of the West, Railhead and Painted Bricks. Those blogs are dedicated to photographs of the topics their title indicates (more or less). This blog, while a history minded one, fits into the latter category. It depicts monuments, mostly war memorials, that we've run across in our travels.

Many of these photos, indeed probably all of them, were taken as the opportunity arose. It'd be rare here to find a photo in which we had gone out specifically to photograph the memorial. Because of that, they will not have a professional quality, as we have to take the monument, including the light, weather, and other conditions, as we find them. Still, that serves the purpose, which is to record monuments and memorials that otherwise would likely be missed by most people.