Cist- Imprisonment, Shrimp, Slavery, Thailand

This blog entry is an attempt to make awareness of slavery, imprisonment, freedom, liberty, and costs associated with it.

Charles Cist lived in the 1700's. He was imprisonment and likely experienced slave labor while in Siberia, Russia.  The idea of imprisonment slavery is not new. It happened in Biblical Egypt, it happened in the 1700's with Cist. The Underground Railroad during the American slavery movement  is well documented. Slavery is happening in modern day society. The term Underground Railroad is a term used to express freedom and liberty and cost and hope and faith and love. Do organizations experience upgrading, transformation, and new management changes? Yes, it happens all the time, but the organization still remains. So when someone implies that the Underground Railroad is still alive it should not surprise you. Imprisonment and slavery can be about physical slavery, spiritual slavery, financial slavery, sex slavery, drug addiction, mental health imprisonment. My own personal imprisonment issues has been about battling depression. I was unbalance years ago. With visits with a doctor and therapist, and a case manager, I am now an asset to my family and not a liability. I have a more meaningful and inspired life. It has taken me a lifetime of learning more about the Holy Bible and that adds understanding on how to deal with my depression and being balanced, release freedom and liberty. In order to understand more about this, it is recommended to participate in a Bible study group. Explore your own individual imprisonment, slavery experience and hopefully gain more out of these blog entries.

The Guardian, www.theguardian.com, wrote articles about modern day slavery concerning the supply chain with global pawn (shrimp) industry in Thailand and its connections to US and European stores, such as, Walmart, Costco, Carrefour, and Tesco to name a few. In the article Charoen Pokphand Foods, (CP Foods), was named in a class action lawsuit filed by co-lead Derek Howard, Howard Law Firm, in Mill Valley, California. In the lawsuit it gives testimonies of workers who were forced to work 20 hour shifts, starting at 3:00 am., workers were killed in front of other workers to show fear and intimidation, some workers were at sea for years. The Thai Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Vijavat Isarabhakdi, says that his department has made progress in this area.

How does this effect me? How does this effect you? As an American living in the US, it is a blessing that our society has many comforts of modern day living. It makes me more aware of eliminating an attitude of ( I can eat shrimp whenever I want, I can have as much shrimp whenever I want, I  expect shrimp to be cheap). Yes, I will eat shrimp again in the future. Am I more balanced about portion sizes and who is involved with the supply chain,yes. I make an attempt to read food labels. Where does this food come from? Be honest with yourself ;therefore, you can be honest with others. I do not need to tell society that there is spiritual warfare going on. It is all around us. It happens in Bible, it happens during Cist's period, it is happening today. If you fully understand that a person's behavior can have a negative/ positive effect elsewhere in the universe  (both physically/ spiritually) and then multiply that by all of your decisions during the day, how you eat, what you eat, how you spend money, who you give money to, how you  use your time ,who you spend time with, who do you look up to . Include all the other decisions that I have left out and it will probably make your head spin. It is OK to seek therapy.

In conclusion, I am using the life of Charles Cist, an American Revolutionary War printer, as an example and testimony on how a person can survive imprisonment, slavery and reinvent themselves and live a productive life. I look at the life of Charles Cist and his involvement to the causes of freedom and liberty as permission to so. 

Andrew C. Allen

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Making Connections Thomas Paine and Charles Cist.

I know that Thomas Paine and Charles Cist worked together in Philadelphia through the printing of Common Sense. I am reading Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, by Harvey J. Kaye. Mr. Kaye's novel describes Paine's early adulthood while living in London, England and the Sussex coast. On pages 26-40 Kaye illustrates the chronicle  movements of Paine arriving to America and how he arrived and when he arrived. Paine petitioned the Excise Commission in London for career opportunities and there he networked with the City's intellectuals and met the writer and scientist and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin. This is a connection because it shows the same time period that Cist made he escape through Europe to America. It also shows the networking by Benjamin Franklin and others traveling back and forth from America to England and France and elsewhere meeting, well- educated, young individuals to come to America.

Additionally, Paine was not the publisher of North Briton, but he did witness the publisher, John Wilkes, go through a public display of "Wilkes and Liberty" in the streets against the control of government and taxes. It illustrated an example of government menacing in rights of freeborn Englishmen. He took this experience with him to the British Colonies when he left England in the late summer of 1774.
Benjamin Franklin gave Paine an introduction letter to show Franklin's son-in-law, Richard Bache, an insurance underwriter in Philadelphia and to Franklin's son, William. William was Royal Governor of New Jersey. The introduction letter read:
The bearer, Mr. Thomas Paine, is very well recommended to me as an ingenious worthy young man...If you can put him in a way of obtaining employment as a clerk, or assistant tutor in a school, or assistant surveyor ( of all of which I think him very capable) so that he may procure a subsistence at least, til he can make acquaintance and obtain a knowledge of the country you will do well and much oblige your affectionate father.
Paine had networking opportunities and platforms to springboard his political ambitions.

Could this have happened to Charles Cist? Did Cist receive a letter of introduction from someone in America while in Europe? Was it Benjamin Franklin? Cist landed in Philadelphia during the same time period.  He married Mary Weiss the daughter of Jacob Weiss who was under the command of George Washington. This shows a similar networking of the same social connections.

On page 29, Mr. Kaye mentions that the British Colonies had swelled to over three million people. The wave of immigrants from Scots, Scots-Irish, Welsh, Germans, Dutch, French, Swedes, and enslaved Africans made America even more diverse. The" news" was out all over Europe "Come to America."

Charles Cist spoke many languages and with all of these new immigrants arriving in the British Colonies, he, too, was involved in a network to come to America. Cist could not have done all this traveling from Siberia, Russia to America on his own.
Andrew C. Allen


Paine arrived in Philadelphia a free man, but the ship travel was very difficult, many people died on the journey over. Paine quickly was offered a journalism/ editorship job at The Pennsylvania Magazine  owned by Robert Aitken. Under Paine's editorship subscriptions rose from 600 to 1500 subscribers, but Paine was not happy working for Mr. Aitken and Mr. Witherspoon. He quit in summer of 1775.

Is there a connection between the break up of the printing partnership of Cist and Styner  and Paine leaving the editorship of The Pennsylvania Magazine? Cist continued to print pamphlets. This has been added to the list of questions I have at home.
Andrew C. Allen
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12/10/2015

Charles Cist, Thomas Paine, Myself

Charles Cist received ridicule towards his later years in life in Philadelphia in the late 1790's and early 1800's when he tried to market his coal stones. People thought that the coal rocks where difficult to burn, so they thought that he was trying to scam the community into buying a worthless product.
Cist was a life long learner in natural sciences. He graduated form the University of Halle, Germany, he was a physician in the royal court of Catherine the Great in Imperial Russia, he learned how to print American Revolutionary War pamphlets, and he was a treasurer of the Continental Congress, he married Mary Weiss and fathered children. He was very active in life.
Society can be very fickle and undeserving. He made improvements in society.

Thomas Paine was similar to Cist in not being recognized for his contributions until after he died. His Common Sense and American Crisis were his two most notable works.

I spent part of the summer in a men's homeless shelter. I experienced a helpful network of people and resources that helped me get to the next level in my life. I would not have moved forward as quickly as I did if I just stayed at a hotel every night just watching T.V.

I can imagine Charles Cist networking through Siberia and Europe to get to America during the 1770's. He did this with the help of a network of people and resources.
I need to take a break now. I will return later.

Romantic courtship of 1700's Cist vs. Modern Day Romance Cist

I have wondered how Charles Cist met his wife, Mary Weiss. After his escape from Siberia, how did he meet her in Philadelphia, PA, at church, party? I know that he was a European aristocrat. Mary Weiss was the daughter of Jacob Weiss, who was under General George Washington's army. That is a connection.
 In early Colonial Times in American, according to Molly Wolf, a library liaison to the school of Human Sexuality at Widener University, women were married off for business reasons and for survival ship. If a woman survived the previous winter and was of child-bearing age she was a prime catch in those days. The father  usually tried to incorporate water rights and property rights for farming during a marriage.
Large cities such as Philadelphia were changing family's dynamics about marriages and courtships. Sailors were arriving on ships looking for a quite love connections and they would hold hands and then skip town on the next boat to England. If the girl got pregnant then the sailor might have to come back as face charges, but that was not the norm. Philadelphia, PA was a cultural, social, and scientific place and classes were forming away from the traditional farming culture.

Charles Cist had a strong life about the ideals of liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness and educational pursuit. I know that he had challenges during his courtship days. Did he leave a wife and family back in Europe before he escaped from Siberia? Is their a family in Russia or Germany who had told stories of an ancestor who was imprisoned by the Imperial Court of Catherine the Great to Siberia and died, not knowing that Charles Cist  survived his imprisonment only to escape to America. His  American direct linage has passed down stories of his American endeavors, government printing, world renowned autograph collection, Civil War offspring involvement. If so, I am in favor of meeting long lost cousins in Europe.

For know I am sharing my own Cist linage pursuit of modern day courtship. I am still seeking freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from my own family's interest of leaving me out of decisions. I have been making it on my own this summer by living out of my car and men's shelters for financial reasons, positive mental health, and to get away form family's manipulations. I can get a first date with a lovely girl. It is over coffee that I have to usually explain that I am living at a men's shelter and I have an 8 o'clock curfew. For a fifty year old male this puts a damper on getting a second date. I am still searching for a very understanding, beautiful, smart woman. I have tried the internet dating avenue, but I have come across fake profiles who just want to scam a person out of money.

I do share a positive outlook on life with Charles Cist. He must of had a positive outlook on life to have accomplished much and to have survived. Life is good.

Andrew C. Allen
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Interdisciplinary Study Case

It is important to try and place yourself in history. I am trying to put myself in Philadelphia, PA during the times of the American Revolutionary War. I was in London, Ontario last year and I noticed the Canadian Medical Museum in the heart of downtown London, ON. Could there be a connection between the thirteen colonies' medical experiments and experiences that were shared with Canadian society? I think so. Charles Cist was a physician and was educated to correspond and share knowledge.

I am in the process of moving to a more permanent living arrangement. I should be moving from the temporary men's shelter soon. This has caused a delay in my research, but I shall not quit!

Andrew C. Allen
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A Chickamauga Campaign Conflicting Story

Gen Benjamin Hardin Helm

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Birth:  Jun. 2, 1831 Hardin County Kentucky, USA Death:  Sep. 20, 1863 Chickamauga Walker County Georgia, USA Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Born in Bardstown, Kentucky, he was called Ben Hardin Helm and graduated 9th in the West Point class of 1851. He resigned his Lieutenant's commission in 1852 after duty at the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, cavalry school and at Fort Lincoln, Texas, and became a law student, a 1 term Kentucky state legislator, a state attorney for Kentucky's 3rd District, and a prosperous lawyer. At the start of the Civil War he recruited the 1st Kentucky Cavalry for the Confederacy, then received a commission as a Colonel on October 19, 1861. He occupied Bowling Green, Kentucky, with Brigadier General Simon B. Buckner, and was later sent south. He received his promotion to Brigadier General on March 14, 1862. On April 6, at the end of the first day of fighting in the Battle of Shiloh, he incorrectly sent word from his post in north Alabama that Union Major General Don Carlos Buell's force was pressing for Decatur, Alabama, instead of moving to Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant's aid. General P.G.T. Beauregard, who assumed command after General Albert Sidney Johnston's death at Shiloh, later claimed that he disregarded his message, yet he did not press his advantage on the 6th. By morning, the reinforcements had arrived, strengthening the Federal position and denying victory to the Confederate troops. Shiloh did not affect his career. Posted to Vicksburg in summer 1862, he took part in Major General John C. Breckinridge's expedition to Baton Rouge but missed the battle because of injuries in a fall from his horse. In January 1863 he joined the Army of Tennessee and served in the Tullahoma and Chickamauga Campaigns under Breckinridge. On September 20, he was mortally wounded at Chickamauga and died that night with his final word being "Victory!". He is remembered less for his Confederate service than for marrying Emily Todd in 1856. Before the war, she, Mary Todd Lincoln's half sister, brought her husband into President Abraham Lincoln's family circle. Lincoln offered him a Union commission with the rank of Major in 1861, which he declined to raise the 1st Kentucky. After his death, his widow passed through Union lines to visit her sister at the White House in December. She later recalled that Lincoln himself met her at her carriage with tears in his eyes. Her stay would later cause a furor in the Northern press. (bio by: Ugaalltheway) Family links:  Parents:   John Larue Helm (1802 - 1867)   Lucinda Barbour Hardin Helm (1809 - 1885)  Spouse:   Emilie Todd Helm (1836 - 1930)*  Children:   Katherine Helm (1857 - 1937)*   Elodie Todd Lewis (1859 - 1953)*  Siblings:   Benjamin Hardin Helm (1831 - 1863)   George H. Helm (1833 - 1859)*   *Calculated relationship   Benjamin H. Helm died as a Confederate soldier at Chickamauga and he was in Abraham Lincoln's  family circle. Henry M. Cist was the secretary of the Army of the Cumberland and recorded many Civil War stories like this. He learned this from his father, Charles E. Cist. Andrew C. Allen 513.638.7140 pewabic34@gmail.com

State of Georgia Civil War Battlefield Museum Park

The Chickamauga Civil War Battle was a complex and confusing battle for both the Union and Confederate soldiers according to our tour guide, Mr. Chris Barr, a park ranger with a history degree about the Civil War. Enclosed is a photo from our walk through the forest. I was with a school group as well as other civil war reenactment personalities who were dressed in modern clothing, not antebellum period clothing. They added to the discussion that Mr. Barr lead.
Some things to remember when walking through a battlefield forest is that you just know what is in front of you. You are in the present moment. Everything else does not matter when fighting for your life. The gun shots from across the field 1/2 mile away does not matter. When a troop of soldiers would walk across the changing terrain. soldiers experienced a slinging effect through the forest. Soldiers would cross a creek or river and the back end group would wait while the front end group would cross and move forward. It was a stop and go process.
There was a group of soldiers from Florida that played an important role at Chickamauga in September 1863. I believe this was an introduction on how the Cist family had a cottage on Sanibel Island, FL at  Thistle Lodge. Henry M. Cist must have met Floridian soldiers at Chickamauga and kept  in contact with them through the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. He was Secretary of the organization for many years.
This battlefield was filled with potential friends and enemies. Based on family stories, we had conductors on the Underground Railroad in the family. Also, there is an unidentified African-American  gentleman in our family photo album from the 1840's.  It is still in the original casing album. Lewis J. Cist was a published author of Fugitive Slave Poems.  I know that Henry M. Cist was fighting for Union causes to keep the Union together and to abolish slavery.
Col. Peyton Colquitt and State Rights Gist fought at Chickamauga and was willing to die to keep slavery intact. Many soldiers fought for different reasons. They were at the same location in the same battle, but for different reasons. Another reason for fighting in the Civil War battle at Chickamauga was the tariff act in Virginia during the 1830's a generation ago. The offspring of the political power players fought in this battle.
Black soldiers, white soldiers, rich and poor alike, men and women all played a part in this complex and interwoven event.

Andrew C. Allen
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Mobile Devices and Mobile Living Research

This blog entry is more about how I am going about my research and assembling my blog/ novel on the Cist family and their influences on liberty and freedom.


I recently made a choice of either keeping my apartment or giving up my car. I chose to keep my car and leave my apartment. This summer I can continue to drive to different libraries and other avenues of archival searches. I am sharing some ways to work smarter, not harder in this summer heat.


I have placed items in storage. I am still navigating mobile living from a suitcase, but here are a few tips about my daily endeavors. I have two sections in my trunk, right side for clean clothes, left side for the laundry hamper.


I am in Lexington, KY now and I have stayed at a clean shelter on Winchester Road. I have to be in line for a bed by 7:00pm. There are signs posted of conduct and an invitation to help keep the outside clean. I was exhausted and went straight to bed.  I have used the YMCA facilities to work out and shower. I can do this in the morning. Some shelters have rules to follow, so check the website and phone ahead.


My eating habits need improving, but I am focusing on new ideas. First, I bought a glass bottle with a porcelain top at Michael's Art and Crafts store. The plastic bottles break down in my car during the summer heat. Plastic bottles are made from petroleum and it break down in heat. I also go to a convenience store and use my cup and fill it with ice. Selective Kroger stores have a triple filtered water location. I LOVE THIS PRODUCT! It costs less than bottled water.


Other choice locations while on the road are downtown libraries of the cities that I visit.


Additionally, Crackle Barrel restaurants are peppered along the I -75 corridor both North and South. It starts from Detroit, MI and continues to the tip of Florida. As a literary citizen, writing, reading, and listening to other authors improves discipline. They have an audio/ books on tape section. How does it work? You use your credit card and check out a tape and listen to it. Return it during your next visit to the restaurant. Ask a server for full details. There food and service-very good. Their servings are large, so I usually ask for a take out container. I mix this up with an red apple, yellow banana, or blueberries with milk for a second road meal. My friend Jennifer Beck at the Wellness Center taught me about how to eat the colors of the rainbow, red, yellow, orange. I wonder if a green lime in my Corona beer is acceptable?


Finally, I use FedEx/Kinko's to use as a business station while on the road.


I am making plans to use Megabus for a trip to Philadelphia, PA to learn more about how Charles Cist was involved in early political, cultural, social, scientific, and monetary policies in the city.


I welcome comments on how to improve my summer mobile search.
Andrew C. Allen
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Thank you blog event visitors

This is a simple thank you note to all the engaging visitors at my blogging event in Historic Lebanon, Ohio today, June 6th. Your interest keeps me going.
Andrew C . Allen
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Charles Cist's Philadelphia Cherry Wood Walking Stick.

The Charles Cist Heirloom: An Unassuming Secret Messenger

In the Cist family, there exists an unassuming heirloom that holds a significant historical narrative. This modest walking stick, standing about four feet tall and crafted from cherry wood, features a silver cap with "Charles Cist" etched into the front. What makes this ordinary-looking cane exceptional is its secret compartment, concealed within the silver cap.

During the Revolutionary War era, this Philadelphia walking stick was ingeniously employed as a clandestine courier for written messages exchanged among patriots. The secret chamber housed within the cane's silver top was used to transport letters to and from the printing shop of Cist and Styner. As the British authorities could stop and search anyone in the streets, patriots carrying these messages would boldly offer, "Go ahead, search me."

Upon initiating the search, the patriot would hand the walking stick to the British soldier while stretching out their arms as a silent gesture of cooperation. Unbeknownst to the British soldiers, they were, at that very moment, holding the key to revolutionary communication—the secret compartment containing the vital message to be printed by Cist and Styner.

Andrew C. Allen   April 16th, 2015

Blog Event in Historic Lebanon, Ohio.

My next blog event will be in Historic Lebanon, Ohio on June 6th, Saturday, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Royce Cafe' & Coffeehouse is located at 30 East Mulberry Street-1st Floor Lebanon, OH  45036.

Come learn how Charles Cist and the new hit TV show TURN on AMC are related. Learn a new added vantage point to Colonial America during the American Revolution.

Look for the 99 cent special printing of historical information on Charles Cist and Cist family matters.

Buy some coffee, read, and enjoy the gem of Historic Lebanon, OH. It really does have much to offer.

See you there.
Andrew C Allen April 10, 2015
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Stephen Daye Press

This blog is about early British North American printing. This was before the birth of Charles Cist, but since Mr. Cist was a European first and then an American, there might be a connection between the two. Most of the Industrial goods came from Europe first. We shall find common connections. I am good at this. I am taking notes on names, places, and events. History repeats itself, therefore we can see a pattern.

Additionally, Scott Stamp Catalog number 857, year 1939, shows a picture of the Stephen Daye Press. This is were I had the idea of making a connection and placing this into the data base of information.

Stephen Daye

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The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, printed by Stephen Daye, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1640. First book printed in British North America

Stephen Daye, Sr. (c.1594 – December 22, 1668) was the first British North American printer.

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Daye was born in Sutton, Surrey London, and emigrated on June 7, 1638 to Cambridge Massachusetts on board the "John of London" with his wife Rebecca (Bordman - from a previous marriage) (died October 17, 1658), sons Stephen, Jr. (died December 1, 1639), Matthew (died May 10, 1649), and stepson William Bordman (died March 25, 1685), and three household servants. In 1638 he is recorded as being a locksmith by profession who was under financial contract to Reverend Joseph Glover to repay the loan of £51 for ship transportation for himself and his household and the cost of purchasing iron cooking utensils. Further, he was contracted to set up a printing press at Glover's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts and to be paid wages according to Massachusetts custom.
Glover died on the ship John of London during the voyage, but Daye was legally bound to fulfill his contract setting up the printing press with the aid of his sons and stepson in the home of Rev. Glover at Cambridge. Elizabeth Glover, the widow, was the legal owner of the press and Daye's debt and contract upon the death of her husband. In 1639, it is generally thought or cited in the survey of the literature that Daye printed his first work, The Freeman's Oath, a broadsheet. However, this work may have actually come second following the printing of the first almanac composed by William Pierce. Pierce's almanac, as was typical, commenced with the month of March, which according to English law and custom was the first month of the year, rather than the Gregorian calendar that began in January. Consequently, Daye must have printed Pierce's almanac prior to the English first of the year that began on March 15. In 1640, he printed the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the American colonies. The next year, 1641, Daye was rewarded for his work with three hundred acres of land.
Andrew C. Allen  April 1, 2015
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New York City Public Library Visit

New York City in the Winter still has  many activities during the winter months. It has been awhile since I attended the New York City Public Library at 5th Avenue and 52 street. She is still a grand building! I was happy to see many people waiting outside in the snow to wait for the doors to open for the public.
I went upstairs and rented a computer and signed up for a library card. I did preliminary research on their data base for anything related to Cist family. I came up with an article about Henry M. Cist running for Mayor of College Hill, but lost to Mr. Worthington, an old Cincinnati family. I am retrieving it.
Andrew C. Allen
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Sanibel Island, Florida March 7-14th visit.

I have implemented a working vacation on Sanibel Island, Florida by visiting Sanibel Public Library for the week, March 7-14th. (This is the first time that my mom has been to Florida since my dad passed away. I am down here visiting her. We are having a good time together). The staff at the library is extremely helpful! A special thank you to Joanne and Duane who helped me find connections to add to this blog.

Henry M. Cist was a Union soldier who fought at the Battle of Chickamauga and Knoxville, Tennessee. I am searching for connections to why the Cist family owned The Thistle Lodge on Sanibel Island. The government issued homestead acts to encourage settlers to visit and stay in Florida. Henry M. Cist was the secretary of the alumni association of the Battlefield of Chickamauga for many years. He is the author of Army of the Cumberland.

Mr. Duane E. Shaffer helped me locate Florida's Civil War Explorations Into Conflict, Interpretations and Memory, by Dr. Irwin D. S. Winsboro. Dr. Winsboro is Professor of History at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers, Florida. In his book he discusses the social, economic, political, and settlement issues that faced the State of Florida during and after the Civil War. I am putting together information about Henry M. Cist military pension income and personal connections that helped the Cist family make a decision to have a home at Thistle Lodge on Sanibel Island. My goal is to help educate other descendants of  Civil War veterans, both Union and Confederate soldiers, Black and White soldiers to find their own connections and find happiness, fulfillment, a sense of belonging, and healing.

Mr. Duane E. Shaffer showed me his novel from the library collection, Men of Granite New Hampshire's Soldiers in the Civil War. I am not finding many connections with this book because most of their battles were elsewhere, but that is not to say there are no connections. I just have not found them yet. I am taking names from these books and making cross references from Encyclopedia of the American Civil War A Political, Social, and Military History, David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, editors. As a scholar, I would like to point out the immense work that went into all these reference books! I have written down the mailing address for this book to ask if the editors would consider adding Henry M. Cist involvement in the Civil War in their next edition. I have done this before. When I take down names from different books and find connections this helps me to find out more about how societies, groups, and decisions are made to form cities, states, and grow America. These men and women who shed their blood, starved, and made other sacrifices had the right to add to the growth of America after the American Civil War.

I asked my family to make reservations at the Thistle Lodge restaurant on Thursday, March 13th. The lovely lady who greeted us shared with me certain photos throughout the restaurant. I remember my father showing me  old photographs of the Cist family in the front yard. I went up stairs and to my left was the photograph that I remember seeing as a child long ago. I thanked the hostess. The menu  insert gave me added history of the Lodge.

Additionally, I looked through American Family Name, Patrick Hanks, Editor, and found no reference to the Cist family name.

Andrew C. Allen / March 13, 2015
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Camp Tech Blogging Seminar in Toronto

This blog is not necessarily about Charles Cist, but how I am navigating this blog with current technologies and new skills to improve the interest in the Cist family blog.

I navigated through Google about blogging events in Toronto for February 2015. I learned about Camp Tech located at 215 Spadina Avenue in downtown Toronto. Camp Tech's goal is social innovation for small businesses. An individual can become a member of Camp Tech for a monthly fee. It is very reasonable for new owners and established business owners.  The office space is earthy and filled with wood floors and ample spaces for classes. Staff members are very down to earth and will help assist you with your explained needs.

Ms. Wendy Kam Marcy, co-founder, of www.hipurbangirl.com was the guest monitor for the evening. She presented a full, fact- filled, evening on how to improve your blog, increase readership, engage more readers to respond to post, and check statistical analytic.

First, Find a passion topic, create a niche, understand your target, focus, and write about it.
Second, review your competition, get guest bloggers to post and review your own blog.
Thirdly, increase clicks by creating contests, event listings, story-telling, have a blog that is fast loading, mobile, and is professional looking.
Four, keep post to a minimum of 400 words/ max 800 words.
Fifth, get affiliate marketing to your blog, selling ad space, stay away from paid link exchanges! Add more video to blog content.
Finally, just do it. I continue to do research on Cist family. My travels are taking me to different libraries in the Midwest. I am working on a trip to Philadelphia when the snow melts.