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Month: March 2017

March 15, 2017July 10, 2018joynealkidney

Dan Wilson: I Give Everything. . . .

March 14, 2017April 3, 2024joynealkidney

A Frenchman Honors Our Young Uncle, Daniel S. Wilson

March 14, 2017September 15, 2023joynealkidney

President Truman at the 1948 National Plowing Match–at Dexter, Iowa

March 14, 2017January 1, 2019joynealkidney

1955 United Airline Crash Landing near Dexter, Iowa

March 14, 2017January 1, 2022joynealkidney

Invitation

March 14, 2017June 15, 2024joynealkidney

Reconciling Dad the Farmer I Knew with Dad the Veteran Pilot

March 14, 2017January 22, 2024joynealkidney

August 1945–Junior Wilson

March 14, 2017February 24, 2023joynealkidney

Dale Wilson: Telegram on his mother’s birthday

March 13, 2017December 28, 2023joynealkidney

AWOL

March 13, 2017January 2, 2023joynealkidney

The rememberers

March 13, 2017April 18, 2024joynealkidney

Clabe gives a “shingle bob” to his wife

March 13, 2017October 26, 2024joynealkidney

Forgotten stories of losing children

March 13, 2017November 6, 2024joynealkidney

Christmas 1913

March 13, 2017September 18, 2021joynealkidney

Brown Taffeta

March 13, 2017October 31, 2024joynealkidney

The house on the hill

March 13, 2017July 15, 2024joynealkidney

Ben Black’s Children (poem)

March 13, 2017December 19, 2021joynealkidney

Machine Perm and Lost Toenails

March 13, 2017December 19, 2021joynealkidney

Whooping Cough: Quarantine and Carnations

March 13, 2017June 15, 2024joynealkidney

Canning Factory–late for their Senior Year

March 13, 2017January 1, 2022joynealkidney

Great Grandmother’s Dishes

March 13, 2017October 10, 2023joynealkidney

The Roadster and Rusty the Squirrel

March 13, 2017April 22, 2019joynealkidney

Easter 1925–green pongee frock and a hat with cherries

March 13, 2017July 1, 2020joynealkidney

1927

March 13, 2017January 14, 2023joynealkidney

Needle in her Hand

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