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Tag: Guthrie County Iowa

April 24, 2021April 23, 2021joynealkidney

I See Guthrie Center First – a Poem

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021joynealkidney

More Our American Stories: The Periwinkle Quilt

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021joynealkidney

Stuart Bank Robbery Attempt 100 Years Ago–Nightwatchman Killed

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021joynealkidney

Babies Named for Political Figures

January 12, 2021January 16, 2021joynealkidney

Morrisburg Cemetery (poem) by Nicholas Dowd

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020joynealkidney

Leora’s Pa (Sherd Goff) Dies, July 20, 1930

May 4, 2020September 9, 2020joynealkidney

Motherline

May 1, 2020June 20, 2020joynealkidney

A May Day Tragedy in 1892

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 23, 2020March 30, 2021joynealkidney

Laura’s Periwinkle Quilt

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020joynealkidney

Leora Goff and the Guthrie County Jail

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020joynealkidney

Facebook: a Place of Grace and Redemption?

December 23, 2019July 26, 2021joynealkidney

The Great Influenza Pandemic and Christmas 1919

November 8, 2019February 1, 2021joynealkidney

Armistice Day 1919

October 18, 2019April 8, 2021joynealkidney

Prayers for Leora’s Letters

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019joynealkidney

Guilt Over an Old Photograph

July 1, 2019February 1, 2021joynealkidney

The Glorious Fourth–1897

September 28, 2018September 29, 2018joynealkidney

Laura Arminta (Jordan) Goff (1868-1962)

September 14, 2018May 14, 2019joynealkidney

My Guthrie County (Iowa) Towns

August 30, 2018August 30, 2018joynealkidney

Doris Wilson, first daughter, born 100 years ago

May 29, 2018February 2, 2021joynealkidney

World War I Reaches into Guthrie County

February 27, 2018December 15, 2018joynealkidney

Grandpap Davy Jordan (1842-1913)

February 13, 2018March 22, 2019joynealkidney

Leora’s Almost Valentine’s Day Wedding

December 28, 2017February 23, 2021joynealkidney

A Perplexing Ancestor

May 6, 2017July 3, 2020joynealkidney

Sherd Goff, Popcorn King of Guthrie County, Iowa

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