Ray and I recently visited Calhoun County, Illinois, with members of our family. Calhoun County is a peninsula almost surrounded by the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Visitors enter it on one of its three ferries or its lone bridge. We took the Golden Ferry across the Mississippi ... View Post
Almanzo and Laura
Wouldn't you love to have been in the room while Almanzo Wilder told his wife Laura Ingalls Wilder the stories she included in Farmer Boy? When Laura published the book in 1933, she was 66 years old and Almanzo was 76. They had been married for 48 years. I imagine that he had been telling her those ... View Post
Training Little Hearts, Souls, Minds — and Hands
One of the many skilled people who have helped us reclaim our old house stopped by yesterday. He needed to pick up the drill charger he and his co-worker left here last time. I'm grateful for the plumbers, electricians, carpenters, woodworkers, and painters who have enhanced our house and our lives ... View Post
Rick, Rick, and the Dulcimer Shop
As Ray and I explored downtown New Harmony last Thursday afternoon, we were intrigued by this business on the corner. Was it a theater perhaps? To our surprise, it was a dulcimer shop. We went inside and saw a wire art sculpture of a trumpet-playing New Harmony High School band member ... View Post
A Christmas Field Trip
Our Chamber of Commerce usually meets in one of the courtrooms at our local courthouse. I was happy at our last meeting when I saw a Christmas tree by the judge's bench. This past Saturday, before the Christmas parade, I went inside the courthouse again and noticed ways other ... View Post
History and Faith in the Tetons
The sun that set so beautifully behind the Tetons on October 31, . . . . . . rose to shine on them again the next morning. God is so faithful to give the earth that blessing every day. Ray and I spent the day before the wedding driving from south to north through Grand Tetons ... View Post
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