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Month: March 2017

March 15, 2017July 10, 2018joynealkidney

Dan Wilson: I Give Everything. . . .

March 14, 2017May 27, 2019joynealkidney

A Frenchman Honors Our Young Uncle, Daniel S. Wilson

March 14, 2017April 9, 2021joynealkidney

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, 2017July 28, 2021joynealkidney

Invitation

March 14, 2017May 2, 2021joynealkidney

Reconciling Dad the Farmer I Knew with Dad the Veteran Pilot

March 14, 2017April 6, 2019joynealkidney

August 1945–Junior Wilson

March 14, 2017April 6, 2019joynealkidney

Dale Wilson: Telegram on his mother’s birthday

March 13, 2017July 27, 2021joynealkidney

AWOL

March 13, 2017September 23, 2020joynealkidney

The rememberers

March 13, 2017March 29, 2021joynealkidney

Clabe gives a “shingle bob” to his wife

March 13, 2017September 29, 2018joynealkidney

Forgotten stories of losing children

March 13, 2017July 10, 2018joynealkidney

Christmas 1913

March 13, 2017January 25, 2019joynealkidney

Brown Taffeta

March 13, 2017July 10, 2018joynealkidney

The house on the hill

March 13, 2017February 14, 2020joynealkidney

Ben Black’s Children

March 13, 2017February 23, 2019joynealkidney

Machine Perm and Lost Toenails

March 13, 2017November 9, 2020joynealkidney

Whooping Cough: Quarantine and Carnations

March 13, 2017July 23, 2020joynealkidney

Canning Factory–late for their Senior Year

March 13, 2017October 2, 2020joynealkidney

Great Grandmother’s Dishes

March 13, 2017February 12, 2019joynealkidney

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, 2017June 6, 2019joynealkidney

Needle in her Hand

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