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"July was proving to be unusually hot, and rain was sorely needed.  The leaves on Isaac's potato plants were drying, even the on...

Because I have a great many international followers, I had hoped some of you might leave your comments to this week's post.  Whether you...

History has overtaken the Fenwick household!  After tolerating about two and a half years of my immersion in newspapers from the 1880s and ...

Isaac Beckley Werner was an accomplished carpenter, and he helped build the wood frame school house that served his prairie community.  H...

Most writers will tell you that their characters, fictional or real, will begin to inhabit their waking lives, even when they are not wri...

Isaac's interest in photography is mentioned in his journal several times during 1871, and when he sold his drug store business, he con...

Our visit to the Homestead National Monument near Beatrice, Nebraska, allowed me to see some of the implements Isaac may have used, parti...

Today's post is about harvesting things long awaited.  First, after more than two years of research and more than a year of writing a...

Isaac B. Werner had no descendants, but many homesteaders raised families.  Today it is estimated that 93 million people are descendants ...

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...