About the Chronicles

This is the Zuiker Chronicles Online, a blog by Anton Zuiker.

This site honors my grandfather, Francis C. Zuiker.

From the 1960s to the 1990s, Frank the Beachcomber, as he was known, mailed the Zuiker Chronicles newsletter to his large and far-flung family. Grandpa’s typed letters told stories about his beachcombing travels and camping trips (with my grandmother, Clarice), his banjo playing and bird watching, and his joy in gathering with my uncles and aunts and cousins and friends for the Zuiker jamboree at Ravens Roost, the family campground in northern Wisconsin.

I first created a website at zuikerchronicles.com in July 2000, just a few months before grandpa died at age 90 (read our tributes to Frank. I hoped the site could serve as an online community for the extended Zuiker family, many of whom have written their own versions of the Chronicles through the years. (One of my graduate-school projects explored “how personal publishing software fosters online family.”).

After that first year, I used the site primarily to chronicle my own activities. Then, from 2004 to 2014, I blogged at mistersugar.com, so this site was a bit quiet. I came home to zuiker.com in 2015 and I’ve continued to blog here since.

Go to the Search page or the Archive to dig into my posts.

Learn more about me at antonzuiker.com.

Genealogy

See the family tree at tree.zuiker.com to explore our family genealogy.

Nuts and bolts

Zuiker Chronicles Online has used the excellent Textpattern content management system since its beta days in 2004. I am indebted to the developer community that has continued to build this CMS ever since Dean Allen first presented it to us.

See the changelog for other details about how the site has evolved..

How to contact me

Write to me at anton AT zuiker.com or call me at 919.923.9491.