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Perhaps it was the deep shade cast by the large, heart-shaped leaves of the catalpa trees that made Isaac love them as he did.  What he s...

After posting the blog remembering Memorial Days from the past, I asked my cousin, Misty Beck, if she would share as a comment an amusing...

In 1877 not only did the annual rainfall encourage potential settlers with the total amount that fell.  More importantly, the rain was well...

When I was a child, Memorial Day was an occasion for honoring America's fallen soldiers and visiting graves of ancestors.  Tin cans a...

With his usual eagerness for self-improvement, Isaac noted the following purchase in his journal:  "During P.M. looked over my catal...

As much fun as researching Isaac has been, researching his neighbors so that I can bring to life the entire community in which Isaac lived h...

To survive as a prairie farmer, Isaac had a great deal to learn, and he approached his education enthusiastically. His journal became his r...

In 1870 Isaac Beckley Werner was a twenty-six year old druggist in the Illinois prairie town of Rossville. He took great pride in his busin...

America has not always been a nation with great disparity between the wealth of its richest and poorest citizens. In his famous book, Democ...

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...