Johnny’s Page

Not a place for negative, just a place for what makes me happy 🙂

There is allot to me so it is hard to pin it all down. Basically I love my family, history and Mother Earth. All the aspects of the previously mentioned is what makes me happy and a good person. When I stray from what makes me happy I become grumpy and hard to get along with.

Below is what is rattling inside my head every day and writing it down makes me feel better.

Genealogy – Family History Research

Cemetery Caretaker
- I am the caretaker for two Masonic Cemeteries in Yamhill County Oregon. I share the day to day goings’ ons’ of these cemeteries on the below Facebook page.
- Both of these cemeteries take up much of my time during the nice weather seasons of Oregon. Mowing, trimming, vacationing gopher and ground squirrels etc. Every year I work at receiving Grants. I have been lucky so far with being awarded close to 10k. We will what the future holds.
  - McMinnville Masonic Cemetery
  - Lafayette Masonic Cemetery
- Pauper Cemetery MAIN WEBSITE
  - Plot Map of Graves
  - The Pauper Cemetery which is also called the Pottersfield Cemetery or Poor Farm Cemetery is a small cemetery within the McMinnville Masonic Cemetery. This Pauper Cemetery which I prefer to call it has around 15 known graves. Some are partially marked but all are 100% unknown.
  - St. Barnabas Episcopal Church has adopted this little cemetery and cleans it every year.

Masonic Research at the Grand Lodge of Oregon https://www.masonic-oregon.com/library-museum/
- Since 2017 I have been honored to be the Chairman of the Library and Museum. I found out my true calling later in my life. I wish I pursued the occupation as an archivist and preservationist. Unfortunately I didn’t figure that out until my early 50’s. So I call myself an ‘amateur archivist and preservationist’. I get to touch history every day and decide how to preserve its history and archive it properly using proper techniques that I learn along the way.

Yamhill County Cyclopedia Page – YC-Pedia
- My YC-Pedia page is for the histories that are not widely known within the county. I have always collected these sources from articles to interviews. Sometimes I copy documents or just annotate my notes on something interesting that I have never heard of. Many interesting tid – bits on this page.

Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries OCHC
- In 2022 I began a new path. I submitted my resumé for a commissioner position with the Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries for the Willamette Valley District and was offered this volunteer position. This is a very exciting new journey and I am enjoying it greatly.
- OCHC 357 PAGE

Art
- I love scenery the most. Such as Van Gogh
  - https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection
- I have always loved the paintings from around the 16th century where there is so much going on in the painting that you can get lost in what the artist was trying to share.
  - Hieronymus Bosch
  - http://www.pieterbruegel.org/blind-leading-the-blind/

Note Taking (Always looking for a better way of note taking) IN WORK
- Obsidian
- OneNote

Archeology IN WORK
- Biblical
  - Looking for Adam (Genetic Research)
  - Looking for Eve (Genetic Research)
- Egyptian
- North American

Lost / Erased / Unexplainable History IN WORK
- Anything that the history books missed that surfaces in todays world amazes me. When finding an ancient item that changes history as historians and science knows it intrigues me.
  - Biblical
  - Egyptian
  - Middle Ages
  - Enlightenment Period
  - North American

Nature IN WORK

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