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October 11, 2021October 24, 2022joynealkidney

Famous Hog Raiser: Daniel Ross Wilson

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021joynealkidney

Leora’s Mother: Laura (Jordan) Goff (1868-1962)

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021joynealkidney

Leora’s Early Stories–Need Help With Working Title and Cover Photo

September 20, 2021December 18, 2022joynealkidney

Mom’s Black Walnut Chocolate Drop Cookies

August 30, 2021January 17, 2022joynealkidney

The Birth of Doris Laurayne Wilson, August 30, 1918 (poem)

April 24, 2021March 19, 2023joynealkidney

I See Guthrie Center First – a Poem

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021joynealkidney

More Our American Stories: The Periwinkle Quilt

March 29, 2021March 15, 2023joynealkidney

Stuart Bank Robbery Attempt–Nightwatchman Killed

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021joynealkidney

Babies Named for Political Figures

February 24, 2021February 11, 2022joynealkidney

Public Sale February 10, 1921, Stuart, Iowa

January 12, 2021July 25, 2022joynealkidney

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, 2020December 24, 2021joynealkidney

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, 2020December 24, 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, 2019March 15, 2023joynealkidney

The Great Influenza Pandemic and Christmas 1919

November 8, 2019January 17, 2022joynealkidney

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, 2019June 29, 2022joynealkidney

The Glorious Fourth–1897

December 6, 2018May 19, 2022joynealkidney

David Jordan (1842-1913)–Church of Jesus Called Sharon of Regular Predestinarian Baptists

September 28, 2018September 29, 2018joynealkidney

Laura Arminta (Jordan) Goff (1868-1962)

September 14, 2018May 14, 2019joynealkidney

My Guthrie County (Iowa) Towns

August 30, 2018December 31, 2021joynealkidney

Doris Wilson, first daughter, born 100 years ago

May 29, 2018November 19, 2022joynealkidney

World War I Reaches into Guthrie County

February 27, 2018December 15, 2018joynealkidney

Grandpap Davy Jordan (1842-1913)

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