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The early Stafford County Court House was in a wooden structure, but as the town of St. John grew, some of the town leaders believed a more ...

Spring has arrived in Kansas, and with a couple of days of rain, the wheat is growing, leaves on the trees are opening, and everything see...

On the southeast corner of the town square in St. John is the Stafford County Courthouse. It was built in 1929, replacing the one Isaac wou...

For my birthday one year, I gave myself the gift of wandering the farm with a photographer's eye, pausing to take pictures of scenes I t...

It was late May, and although the nights were chilly, one sunny day three children who lived in West Naron Township in Pratt, County decided...

When Isaac arrived on the Kansas prairie in 1878 the land was waving grass from horizon to horizon, with little else left to accentuate the ...

Isaac's childhood church is older than this nation. The first steps taken toward the erection of a church were in 1730 on land donate...

Our spontaneous road trip to the Willa Cather Seminar at Smith College that led to the unplanned side trips to Rossville and Hoopeston (See ...

Ferreting out something about Isaac B. Werner's private thoughts on love & romance isn't easy. There are, however, clues to his...

So many of you were having trouble leaving comments that I have changed the format for doing that, which should make it easier. At the bot...

I immediately formed a kinship with Isaac because of our common love for books. When Isaac's Journal begins in December of 1870, he is ...

When we left Rossville, Illinois, there was another place I wanted to see. I remembered that in the spring of 1871, Isaac, his friends John...

On the spur of the moment, my husband and I decided to drive to Northampton, Massachusetts, for a Willa Cather Seminar at Smith College. Wi...

In early days, when bodies were not embalmed, funerals were held within a day or two of death. Town cemeteries were too far away to travel ...

The Stafford County Historical & Genealogical Society is building poor. So many landmark buildings along the Main Street of Stafford ha...

I am republishing the first post for those of you who have joined the blog recently. Together, this post and the Year's End post share ...

So much of 2011 has been spent with Isaac--first, completing the transcription of his journal after eleven months of looking over his should...