I hope as you reflect during this season of thanks that your blessings are many. While the needs in our communities seem greater than ever, this time of year especially reminds us of opportunities to serve. Giving back may look a little different this year, but there are still many ways to contribute wherever you […]
Miners Hall Museum
What to do on a golden autumn day but jump in the car for a breezy drive to a small town in Southeast Kansas and visit the Miners Hall Museum. We were greeted by Operations Manager Donna Sue Pintar, who readily offered information and answered questions during our visit. To fully appreciate the museum, you […]
Adieu Sweet Summer
I’ve always had a hard time letting go of summer. For as long as I can remember, the last day at the swimming pool before it closed on Labor Day was not a happy one for a little girl growing up in the Midwest. It meant putting away my swimsuit for a whole year! And […]
Theodore Clement Steele
Come along with me on this perfect August morning for a ride through the beautiful hills of Brown County, Indiana, to visit the home of artist Theodore Clement Steele. Our drive will take us down scenic Highway 46, then south, following the winding road up through the wooded hills to the top. T.C. Steele, an […]
Blooming Prairie by Candace Simar
The fourth and final book of the award winning Abercrombie Trail series is Blooming Prairie. To offset the loss of crops due to the Rocky Mountain locusts, Evan takes a job driving a mule train over the Wadsworth Trail. The author takes you along for the ride, describing in detail every jolt of the exhausting, […]
Birdie by Candace Simar
It’s 1873 and the story of Evan and Inga Jacobson and their growing family of five sons continues on the Minnesota prairie. Candace Simar has created such life-like characters that you are totally invested in their success or failure as they strive to tame the wilderness and create a home in the face of bank […]
Pomme De Terre by Candace Simar
Pomme De Terre is book two in the Abercrombie Trail series by Candace Simar about the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Simar writes this book from three points of view: Gust Gustofson, his wife Serena, and Drumbeater, nephew of Crooked Lightning who is Evan Jacobson’s life-and-death friend. Through these three narratives, the clash of cultures […]
Abercrombie Trail by Candace Simar
Go back in time to the Minnesota frontier of 1862 in Candace Simar’s Abercrombie Trail for the often neglected American history account of the Sioux Uprising. In this riveting historical fiction novel, relive the experiences of Norwegian immigrant Evan Jacobson who drives a stagecoach between two outposts, delivering dispatches and news to settlers as the […]
Revolutionary War and Memorial Day
There was “badness of weather” in March 1775 when sixteen-year-old Nicholas Gulick mustered in with the New Jersey Militia for the first time. He was a private, two months away from his seventeenth birthday. Every able-bodied man between the ages of 16 and 50 was expected to serve, and by October of that year, it […]
Longing for Spring
Growing up in Iowa, I remember more than one Easter where the frigid temperature forced me to wear my winter coat, covering my beautiful new Easter dress mother had fashioned at the sewing machine. I protested all the way to church, to no avail. Last week it snowed across the upper Midwest. The snow spared […]
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