Friday, July 4, 2025

Tom Graves, Master Carpenter

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  Tom Graves could make just about anything.   In his home near Princeville, Illinois and later in eastern South Dakota he built numerous ho...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

The Truth About Gabriel Monsen: Tragedy aboard the "Italia"

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Gabriel Monsen - a 30 year old Norwegian fisherman, kissed his wife and children goodbye one morning, took his fishing boat out off the coas...
Friday, April 4, 2025

The Map

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  Above: an ordinary map of Europe.  Except it wasn't so ordinary to Jennie Kluthe, whose son, Ed, was serving in World War II somewhere...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Roots of Resilience

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  Ella Monsen Christensen I have been documenting the early life of my great-grandmother Gabrielle “Ella” Christensen, a Norwegian immigrant...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Four Dollars and a Dream - The Story of Peter Christensn - Part 6 - The End

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  Part 6 of Pete's Story - read Part 1  here , Part 2  here , Part 3  here , Part 4  here , Part 5 here , Part 6 here . On New Year’s Da...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Four Dollars and a Dream - The Story of Peter Christensn - Part 5 - California

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  Read Part 1  here , Part 2  here , Part 3  here , Part 4  here , Part 5  here , Part 6  here Pete and Ella’s lives changed again in 1946 w...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Four Dollars and a Dream - The Story of Peter Christensen - Part 4 - The Farm

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 Read Part 1  here , Part 2  here , Part 3  here , Part 4  here , Part 5  here , Part 6  here Pete went back to where he started in life, as...