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June 1, 2022June 1, 2022joynealkidney

Farm Kids and Chores, 100 Years Ago

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8th Grade Graduation

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Getting the Wilson Kids to School was a Lot of Responsibility for a Young Boy

March 24, 2022July 7, 2026joynealkidney

Dad’s Reverse Mohawk

March 16, 2022July 30, 2024joynealkidney

Old Pump Organs

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What do you think?

February 16, 2022March 21, 2024joynealkidney

Grandma Ruby Neal’s Wicker Baskets

February 14, 2022December 12, 2024joynealkidney

Valentine’s Day, 1936

February 11, 2022January 18, 2026joynealkidney

Clabe’s Pipe

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022joynealkidney

Surprise Valentine from Mom

February 7, 2022February 8, 2026joynealkidney

Sweet Success Story by Rod Stanley, Dexter Historian

January 19, 2022December 18, 2024joynealkidney

1955 United Plane Crash near Dexter, Iowa

January 14, 2022July 11, 2024joynealkidney

O.S. (Orlando Swain) Neal, born January 14, 1868

January 12, 2022January 16, 2022joynealkidney

More Nancy the Horse and Other Stories

January 7, 2022January 7, 2022joynealkidney

Clabe Wilson, born January 7, 1888

January 5, 2022February 9, 2022joynealkidney

Nancy and the “Wilson Schoolbus”

December 31, 2021July 23, 2023joynealkidney

A Child’s 100-Year-Old Bowback Chair from Sunday School

December 22, 2021December 8, 2024joynealkidney

Grandma Ruby Neal’s Christmas Kuchen Bread

November 22, 2021November 27, 2025joynealkidney

Annual Dexter-Earlham Thanksgiving Gridiron Clash

October 16, 2021January 7, 2023joynealkidney

Leora Attends Mrs. Connrardy’s Sewing College–1910

October 1, 2021July 30, 2026joynealkidney

Ruby Emma Blohm Neal, born October 1, 1898

September 20, 2021August 20, 2023joynealkidney

Mom’s Black Walnut Chocolate Drop Cookies

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021joynealkidney

My five best books of surprising stories about the Great Depression

September 6, 2021September 6, 2021joynealkidney

Review of “Leora’s Dexter Stories” by Author D. C. Gilbert

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021joynealkidney

Clabe Wilson’s Model T Truck

July 4, 2021December 24, 2021joynealkidney

Killed in Action on Independence Day 1863

June 30, 2021July 13, 2021joynealkidney

Listening to Boxing on the Radio During the Depression Years

June 16, 2021September 21, 2022joynealkidney

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

June 12, 2021June 9, 2021joynealkidney

The Needle in Her Hand

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021joynealkidney

The Wilson Kids’ Birthdays – 1927

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