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Making America Great in 1915

April 30, 2017

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This is my grandmother, Hazel Hystedt, circa 1915.  From 1914-1917 she was a public school teacher in a one-room school near Funkley, Minnesota. By her own account, she had 24 pupils in eight grades, and taught manual training, Home Ec, and Agriculture, and “was wanted to start a Sunday School.”  (She declined that last.) One […]

Home, home on the range: Grampa Smith’s homestead

February 6, 2016

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Once upon a time, a long time ago, my grandfather was 16 years old and trying to find a place for himself in the world. Armed with a romantic streak and a love for history, he headed west along the National Road and kept going . . . all the way to the shores of Malheur Lake.