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City Hotel in St. John, Kansas In searching for images to accompany this blog I observed that often the women photographed in everyday ...

From the County Capital Touring a personal library is a lot like going through someone's family photo album.  Quote from "The ...

View of cemetery from road I was certain we were on the right road, having been told that the old Saratoga Cemetery, also known as Summ...

Sculptures at Orphan Train Museum People are sharing Orphan Train Stories directly with me by e-mail and on facebook, so I thought I w...

                Orphan Train Museum, Concordia, KS Between 1841 and 1860, America became home to 4,311,465 immigrants in search of a ...

St. John Band Isaac Werner loved music.  When he was a young druggist in Rossville, Illinois, the only day of the week that his store w...

Image from the County Capital, the newspaper to which Isaac subscribed   Two of homesteader Isaac Werner's closest neighbors were ...

As I was reading The Forgotten Founding Father, Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture by Joshua Kendall, I...

8th Grade Graduates of Stafford County, Kansas, abt. 1915 As I polished this draft before posting it, my first act was to click on ...

Isaac Werner arrived on the Kansas prairie without a horse.  While neighbors broke sod with horses, mules, and oxen, Isaac traded his lab...

Kay Williams sets up his model town In 1871 when the trains came to Rossville, Illinois, Isaac was among the group of citizens that opp...

 Angels & Ancestors Tree Every holiday season I invite our relatives for a visit to the Beck family ancestral home that my hus...