O.N.Z.C.D.A™ 2005 Web Site of the Month Award Spotlight

 

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O.N.Z.C.D.A™ congratulates our Web Site of the Month Award winners on their achievement and thank the web site owners for the opportunity of being able to visit their web sites. Awards earned from this award program were granted according to the criteria on the date site owners applied for award assessment and over time our criteria has become more demanding making our award more difficult to achieve. Changes to web sites since receiving our awards are the sole responsibility of the award recipients. Access the new window images or text links to visit our winners.

 

•   Poetry from the Heart » awarded January

Welcome to the writings of Bernard Howe. Inside the web site you will find short stories, poetry and a poetry style section where the author give definitions and examples of 18 different styles of poetry. Mr Howe knows his literary business; a great web site for those who wish to study to gain new literary skills. Visitors can spend hours reading some of the most heart - filled poetry ever to be found. Bernard began by writing western poetry or cowboy poems about the old west because of his living in Arizona. He enjoyed hearing and learning about the life of a cowboy and he used a pen name of Sonoran Sam for a while. Bernard tries to be versatile in his writing and about two years ago he started to try his hand at a few short stories. The one about Alaska is his true life adventure of working on the trans-Alaskan pipe line.

 

•  Descendants of Thomas Sims Graves » awarded April. This web site is currently unavailable.

This web site is a compilation of research, family traditions ( oral and written ), descendants, and numerous historical records of the family of Thomas Sims Graves. The Graves Family is a distinguished line that came to Jamestown, Virginia in 1608. Captain Thomas Graves was among the early settlers of Jamestown. He was in charge of Smythe's One Hundred and was a representative to the first meeting of The House of Burgesses. ( The first legislative assembly. ) Captain Thomas Graves is credited with the building of several churches including Hungar's Episcopal Church on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The church may be the only church that still holds all the original lands granted by the English Crown. While several churches claim to be the oldest English church in North America few have been holding services since 1635.