
Author: joynealkidney
Author of "Leora's Letters" and "Leora's Dexter Stories." Regular contributor to "Our American Stories."


Georgia Wilson’s House at Panora Still Stands

You gotta take the pencil sharpener

Searching for the Missing, Decades Later–Two Books by Kenneth Breaux

This Journaled Prayer from 2004

The Iowa Chemist Who Saved the Manhattan Project

The Honeymoon is Over by Rick Friday

Free Leora eBooks Through Saturday

A Bright and Blinding Sun, a Story from WWII by Marcus Brotherton

Chad Elliott: Iowa’s Renaissance Man

Letter from the Daughter of Alonzo Wilson of Coon Rapids, Iowa

The Wilson Connection to the White Rock Conservancy at Coon Rapids, Iowa

Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression – List of Chapters

Tonsillectomies, 1951

See this Blazing Star Quilt, from 1845, at the Iowa Quilt Museum

The New “Leora Book” a topic on The Culture Buzz

Christmas in Northern Minnesota, Early 1900s, a Blizzard and a Child With Pneumonia

Christmas 1952: All Nine Grandchildren

Christmas 1946: War’s Aftermath

Dexter’s Presbyterian Church Choir, all School Kids

Home for Christmas 1944

SPAM (and a Letter Jacket)

“Shelter of the Cross” – signed Poster Print by Photojournalist David LaBelle

My Mother’s Coveted Caramels

Prose and Poetry Gems by Sally Cronin

Debut Novel of Cherie Dargan’s “Grandmother’s Treasures” Series

Novels set in the Holy Land–one Contemporary, one in Biblical Times

Thrillers by Jeff Bailey–Terrorists, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Warheads!

Leora Frances Wilson: December 4, 1890-December 4, 1987
