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Tag: Guthrie Center Iowa

April 23, 2022April 23, 2022joynealkidney

I See Guthrie Center First!

March 12, 2022March 12, 2022joynealkidney

What do you think?

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022joynealkidney

Smallpox! 100 Years Ago

January 17, 2022January 18, 2022joynealkidney

Leora Wilson’s Date Bread Recipe – 1955

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021joynealkidney

Grandma Leora’s Seven Younger Brothers

November 1, 2021October 25, 2021joynealkidney

Striped Brown Taffeta Dress

October 16, 2021November 27, 2021joynealkidney

Leora Attends Mrs. Connrardy’s Sewing College–1910

September 24, 2021May 14, 2022joynealkidney

Gold Star Mothers

August 25, 2021November 27, 2021joynealkidney

Panther Corner

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021joynealkidney

Flag Day

May 29, 2021May 29, 2021joynealkidney

Leora Wilson, Poppy Lady

May 25, 2021May 25, 2021joynealkidney

Hubert Caloud, Site Superintendent with the American Battle Monuments Commission

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021joynealkidney

Clabe Drives to Omaha, Mother’s Day 1946

April 24, 2021April 23, 2021joynealkidney

I See Guthrie Center First – a Poem

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021joynealkidney

More Our American Stories: The Periwinkle Quilt

February 22, 2021May 8, 2021joynealkidney

Iowa Native Hubert Caloud, Superintendent of the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021joynealkidney

Grandma Leora’s Home in Guthrie Center

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021joynealkidney

Homesick – 1921 (poem)

February 8, 2021February 6, 2021joynealkidney

Parrish Cafe, Guthrie Center, Iowa, 1937

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021joynealkidney

Odd Fellows Lodge by Bryon Weesner, Dexter Historian

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021joynealkidney

Who were the Rebekahs?

November 2, 2020February 11, 2021joynealkidney

Miss Grissell Held Office Before it was Legal for Her to Vote–1920

May 9, 2020May 4, 2021joynealkidney

Grandma Leora’s Crocheted Roses

April 17, 2020February 10, 2021joynealkidney

The pandemic dominates our lives, and calls to mind my grandmother’s survival a century ago

March 30, 2020November 17, 2020joynealkidney

Nine Patch Quilt–Laura (Jordan) Goff

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020joynealkidney

Leora Goff and the Guthrie County Jail

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020joynealkidney

Leora Wilson–Role Model

January 15, 2020January 15, 2022joynealkidney

“Meadowlark” by Nicholas Dowd

January 10, 2020February 1, 2021joynealkidney

How a Meadowlark Poem ended up Introducing “Leora’s Letters”

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019joynealkidney

Remembering Leora Goff Wilson (1890-1987)

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