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Tag: Growing Up on a Farm

November 17, 2025November 17, 2025joynealkidney

A young farm girl learns

April 29, 2023December 28, 2025joynealkidney

Bread and Gravy for Supper, Crackers and Milk for Dessert

December 21, 2022December 21, 2025joynealkidney

Dexter’s Presbyterian Church Choir, all School Kids

July 25, 2022January 23, 2023joynealkidney

Those Goff Reunions

April 23, 2022March 19, 2023joynealkidney

I See Guthrie Center First!

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022joynealkidney

Dad’s Reverse Mohawk

March 16, 2022July 30, 2024joynealkidney

Old Pump Organs

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

September 20, 2021August 20, 2023joynealkidney

Mom’s Black Walnut Chocolate Drop Cookies

July 26, 2021July 17, 2025joynealkidney

Near Disaster for a One-Egg Cake Headed to the County Fair

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021joynealkidney

Cotter Key

April 24, 2021April 12, 2023joynealkidney

I See Guthrie Center First – a Poem

December 25, 2020December 25, 2022joynealkidney

Childhood Manger Scene

September 18, 2020September 15, 2023joynealkidney

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

August 31, 2020February 28, 2025joynealkidney

Detasseling Corn: Summer of the First Hundred Dollars

July 27, 2020February 17, 2024joynealkidney

Bless This House

May 29, 2020May 25, 2025joynealkidney

Memorial Day Dinner at the Dexter Presbyterian Church

August 12, 2019August 11, 2024joynealkidney

The Meteors of August

March 4, 2019March 30, 2024joynealkidney

Jack Oatts, Father of Iowa High School Jazz, Earlham High School

January 28, 2019January 28, 2024joynealkidney

Thanks from a former “Bill Riley Kid”

January 11, 2019January 27, 2024joynealkidney

Driving Lessons, 1960

January 4, 2019September 10, 2023joynealkidney

Tractors

December 20, 2018November 26, 2024joynealkidney

Mom’s Caramel-Pecan Cloverleaf Rolls

December 12, 2018December 22, 2022joynealkidney

The Al Bell Blizzard

December 10, 2018September 17, 2024joynealkidney

Harold Cooper, Favorite School Bus Driver

October 5, 2018October 8, 2024joynealkidney

Penn Gwens 4-H Club

May 1, 2018June 17, 2025joynealkidney

Spring’s Maypole Dance

April 6, 2018April 26, 2021joynealkidney

The Old Upright Piano

July 13, 2017April 11, 2023joynealkidney

Roller Skating in the House

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