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May 23, 2026May 23, 2026joynealkidney

Iowa’s Freedom Rocks® (for Memorial Day)

December 4, 2025December 4, 2025joynealkidney

Meadowlark Songs: Laura, Firstborn

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025joynealkidney

Cora (Jordan) Parrish was surprised that “a daughter of her Aunt Leora didn’t know how to cut up a chicken”

April 29, 2025April 30, 2025joynealkidney

Meadowlarks (autographed, with bookmarks) Have Landed, in time for Mother’s Day

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025joynealkidney

Song of Guthrie County by Chad Elliott, Iowa’s Renaissance Man

January 20, 2025January 20, 2025joynealkidney

Laura Jordan and Friends? Or is it her Wedding Photo?

January 16, 2025December 9, 2024joynealkidney

“God meant that we should kneel”

December 3, 2024December 3, 2024joynealkidney

Leora Wilson Celebrates 90th Birthday

November 14, 2024November 14, 2024joynealkidney

That Missing Year: 1947

November 5, 2024November 5, 2024joynealkidney

“Just about what my mother and sister want in the way of a house,” August 1947

August 21, 2024August 21, 2024joynealkidney

An Awesome Connection

July 23, 2024July 23, 2024joynealkidney

Waffles with Grandma Leora

July 4, 2024July 7, 2024joynealkidney

Four Generations

June 27, 2024June 27, 2024joynealkidney

Cheerful Four O’Clocks

May 30, 2024June 14, 2024joynealkidney

You’d Never Recognize Grandma Leora’s Small White House

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024joynealkidney

Meadowlarks and Leora’s Stories

January 27, 2024March 14, 2024joynealkidney

Merrill J. Goff, Cousin of the Wilson Kids, born 100 years ago

December 4, 2023December 4, 2023joynealkidney

“What are you going to say about Leora?” Question to her Pastor

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023joynealkidney

Georgia Laurayne Goff – Brain Fever

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023joynealkidney

The Iowa Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the Capitol Grounds

April 3, 2023April 29, 2024joynealkidney

Rumble & Flash (poems) by C. A. Elliott, and So Much More

March 17, 2023April 20, 2023joynealkidney

Why did Georgia Wilson give up her first son so readily?

January 13, 2023March 25, 2023joynealkidney

Chad Elliott: Iowa’s Renaissance Man

December 26, 2022December 14, 2024joynealkidney

Christmas 1952: All Nine Grandchildren

December 2, 2022December 2, 2022joynealkidney

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

October 28, 2022December 15, 2022joynealkidney

Book Talk in Guthrie Center November 1

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022joynealkidney

Smorgasbord Bookshelf: New Book on the Shelves by Sally Cronin

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022joynealkidney

Laura (Jordan) Goff Turns 92 (Leora’s mother)

September 23, 2022September 27, 2025joynealkidney

Gold Star Mothers Day

September 17, 2022September 17, 2022joynealkidney

Cover Reveal: Leora’s Early Years: Guthrie County Roots

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