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It’s still there. Maybe. I haven’t been out there for some time now, but as long as that abandoned place is circled by a substantial
James C. Schaap
February 21, 2020
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It’s still there. Maybe. I haven’t been out there for some time now, but as long as that abandoned place is circled by a substantial
Don’t know whether he actually carried the Good Book through the west in those early years. The story goes he took carried a copy of
In another day and another time, the buildings crowded on the block made all kinds of sense. The school’s own precious history makes clear that
He wasn’t exactly a kid. There were kids galore on both sides–18-year-olds just out of high school and scores of 17-year-olds who quit school years
The first one was twelve feet wide, still quite a production because Jesus, Mary, and the babe were mud-sculptured, then baked, then painstakingly painted. Back
It was my idea to bring in an expert. For a couple of years in the 90s, I was chair of a board that ran
What do we know about her? She was just a kid really, no more than two years old, but she was cutting edge, a propeller-driven
It’s purple. Well these days, some twenty hot years of Dakota sun later, St. Charles Church looks a bit pink; but originally it was purple.
One of the cement plates standing in the park holds an image of the house she lived in here in Earlville, a little white house
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