Ancestor Soup

  Miss Louise French, a teacher of Latin and Fine Art at Huron College (Huron, South Dakota) for 25 years was also a photographer and specia...

 I grew up knowing this road as part of my Saturday morning "Flip the Loop" routine - see map below - over and over, all the while...

   I must have driven by this lot on the corner of 2nd street and Dakota avenue a million times in the years I lived in Huron, South Dakota....

 The following is a transcript from an old letter I found in a box of papers and other ephemera.  It appears to be written by Eddie Kimball,...

On the corner of Third Street and Dakota Avenue, the busiest intersection in town, sat J. J. Newberry's Department Store.  In many ways,...

I love looking at the small details in old photos.  I scan them at 600 dpi, and take a close look at the little things one would ordinarily ...

The old Armour packing plant had been situated on the top of the hill - or maybe the enormous building just seemed to be on a hil...

I’m not sure of the exact date on the above postcard of Huron College (Huron, South Dakota), but would guess it to be ~1910.  I grew up lo...

I don’t think about junior high without thinking of Miss Birks.  The big old school building, pictured above, was referred to in postcards...

No place in the world says “home”  to me like the Third Street Bridge area over the James River, in Huron, South Dakota.  Over my years in H...