Tag: Great Depression
A pet squirrel on a book cover
Happy Birthday, Leora’s Dexter Stories!
Checking Traplines Before School
Christmas 1936
Christmas 1934: Leora’s Divinity Fudge
What Happened to Laura Goff’s Long Hair?
Gold Star Mothers: Lillie Archibald and Leora Wilson
Kids and Fist Fights
Questions to Ponder: Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression
What’s a book that opened your eyes to a new perspective, and more. . .
The “Leora books”–world and national events reach into the American Heartland
Granger Homestead by Brent Hegstrom
Dale Wilson’s Favorite Poem: “If” by Rudyard Kipling
Rusty the Pet Squirrel is on the Cover of Leora’s Dexter Stories. What else?
Heartwarming Stories, a Review of Leora’s Dexter Stories by Colleen Chesebro
A Mumuration of Starlings
A Welcome Guest Post about the Leora Stories
October in Iowa!
Needs Just Five More Reviews!
Climbing the Watertower
Bananas–everything you wanted to know about them and more
Louise Oehlman Took in the Orphaned Daughter of the Clampitts
Former Boxer W.D. Clampitt, Dexter School Superintendent
Pollywogs Become Shellbacks
My Very First Blog Post was April 2, 2015
What Could be Built from an Old Pump Organ?
County Champs In Spite of a Broken Shoestring
The Model T Truck became “Roadster”
