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Original farm house Writing history and restoring an old house have a lot in common.  Both require you to consider seriously whether wh...

Photo credit:  Lyn Fenwick By now my husband knows to start slowing the car in anticipation of making a stop for photographs if a barn ...

I only want impossible things. The others don't matter. --Willa Cather  Willa Cather Mildred R. Bennett was not born in R...

Photo credit:  Larry D. Fenwick I never know what the comments and mail will bring in response to my blog postings, and last week's...

American Bison When homesteaders like Isaac B. Werner arrived on the prairie, they found few trees.  They had not yet planted corn, the...

Leo Tolstoy Continuing to share the history of diary keeping from Alexandra Johnson's book, A Brief History of Diaries>>From ...

Isaac Werner's Journal When I was a young girl I kept a diary.  Two of my diaries survive, both with faux leather covers and a flap...

Isaac's stone in Neelands The day that I first found Isaac Werner's grave in Neeland's Cemetery there were iris planted at ...

Webs on Sand Hill Plums The popularity of my past sand hill plum blog posts has verified my feeling that sand hill plum jelly is as pop...

William Cullen Bryant It has been my habit during April Poetry Month to devote a blog to poetry.  You may visit the blog archives for p...

Some books read in the innocence of childhood raise complex issues today.  Helen Bortz remembers:  "There was a series of stories th...