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Tag: Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression

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Claiborne Junior Wilson born 100 Years Ago, Dallas County, Iowa

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Book Clubs and the “Leora Stories”

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My Endodontist Played for the Minnesota Lynx

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The Leora Books

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Climbing the Watertower

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Free Leora eBooks Through Saturday

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John Busbee of The Culture Buzz, Endorser for “Leora’s Early Years”

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What Happened to the Model-T “Roadster”

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Valentine’s Day, 1936

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Clabe’s Pipe

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John Busbee, Culture Buzz, Foreword for “Leora’s Dexter Stories”

September 29, 2021September 8, 2025joynealkidney

Permission to Publish a Depression Era Newspaper Photo

September 20, 2021August 20, 2023joynealkidney

Mom’s Black Walnut Chocolate Drop Cookies

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021joynealkidney

My five best books of surprising stories about the Great Depression

August 18, 2021March 5, 2023joynealkidney

Military New Testaments in the Family

August 2, 2021December 21, 2023joynealkidney

John Busbee, The Culture Buzz

July 7, 2021July 7, 2021joynealkidney

Starlings (poem)

June 30, 2021July 13, 2021joynealkidney

Listening to Boxing on the Radio During the Depression Years

June 16, 2021September 21, 2022joynealkidney

Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression – List of Chapters

June 12, 2021June 9, 2021joynealkidney

The Needle in Her Hand

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021joynealkidney

The Wilson Kids’ Birthdays – 1927

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Dandelions for Mrs. Wilt

May 6, 2021September 15, 2023joynealkidney

Nu Alpha Gamma Chapter tours Minburn sites Saturday by Sue Leslie

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021joynealkidney

Keeping the Dexter Town Pump Oiled: a WPA Job During the 1930s

April 13, 2021April 14, 2021joynealkidney

Join Me Thursday in Person or Via Facebook: Earlham’s Senior Speaker Series

April 7, 2021May 20, 2021joynealkidney

Earlham Bricker-Price Senior Series–April 2021

March 15, 2021June 5, 2021joynealkidney

“Leora’s Letters” Interview with John Busbee

March 5, 2021May 19, 2023joynealkidney

Danny’s Mastoid Surgery (poem)

February 26, 2021January 9, 2023joynealkidney

Those Two Sets of Twins

February 8, 2021February 6, 2021joynealkidney

Parrish Cafe, Guthrie Center, Iowa, 1937

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