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David Dayton

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David Dayton

Puritans, Quakers, and Tories: The Tangled Web of My Dayton Genealogy

Historical records and DNA results should reveal the truth, right?

May 1, 2022

Photo showing early map of Burford Township, Upper Canada (Ontario). Plots of land owned by three Dayton families are marked.

May 1, 2022

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David Dayton

Memories Rescued from Childhood Amnesia

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew…

Apr 30, 2022

Photograph of the author’s family when he was two years old, with him and his sisters sitting in front of their smiling parents.

Apr 30, 2022

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David Dayton

Chocolate Makers and Missionaries

My Mother’s Side of the Family

May 1, 2022

Old-timey illustrations, left to right, Walter Baker Chocolate Factory in Lower Mills area of south Boston and a New York City rescue mission.

May 1, 2022

David Dayton

The Housewarming

When we first moved in we found cigarette butts everywhere, columns of flaky ash marking where the old lady dropped them, and then forgot…

Jul 25, 2022

Close-up of old woman exhaling cigarette smoke.

Jul 25, 2022

David Dayton

Photograph of a Suicide in the Morning Paper

Like jumping for the first time

Jul 14, 2022

Young woman sitting on the edge of a cliff overlooking water.

Jul 14, 2022

David Dayton

Mother’s Day

I’m tired of keeping my eyes tethered to the same old roads, seeing so much of so little of life through a windshield. I keep spying on my…

Jul 5, 2022

Woman in driver’s seat of a stopped car, looking distressed

Jul 5, 2022

David Dayton

County Youth in Accident

The story in the paper got it wrong — wasn’t how fast I was goin’ or the road bein’ slick from rain. It was that deer, crazy young buck…

Jul 5, 2022

County Youth in Accident

Jul 5, 2022

David Dayton

The Ragman

I’ve seen him at all hours in every weather, lately bent over, lugging a duffel bag: stocky, robust-looking white guy, graying greased-back…

Jul 5, 2022

Man in a winter coat sits on a park bench beside a duffel bag, head bent over onto his arms

Jul 5, 2022

David Dayton

To the Lake Isle, and Step on It

Even as you are making up something To tell her (to make it right), Part of you is itching to get lost —

Jun 20, 2022

Young bearded man sitting on slanted rock jutting into the sea

Jun 20, 2022

David Dayton

Training for the Faith Olympics

Run in such a way as to take the prize. Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is…

Jun 12, 2022

Male runner silhouetted against fiery horizon

Jun 12, 2022

David Dayton

David Dayton

See https://linktr.ee/daviddayton for current writing links. For bio, see https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/david_dayton

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