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James C. Schaap

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Remembrance

The only means of getting man and woman, beast and wagon across the rain-swollen Niobrara River was by rope, hand over hand. Dozens of oxen

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Our small corners

“Why are they called Canada geese?” our third-grade grandson asked us last week. It seems no one really knows; after all, they show up in

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When nothing is something

We visited Stratford-upon-Avon, of course, toured Shakespeare’s house and watched the Royal Shakespeare Company perform Julius Caesar in the Royal Shakespearean Theater. I vaguely remember the grave

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Buffalo Soldiers in the Trenches

By the time American troops got to Europe in 1917, African-Americans had an established, but not celebrated history in military service of our country. In

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Voices in Lancaster County

“Sunday, October 15, we went to church. The wind was then blowing wildly, but this became worse further along in the day. When we got

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The Blizzard of 1888

A January thaw is what all of us look forward to out here, a breath of warmth that reopens our hope that someday soon April

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Immigration

I snapped this shot at the Somalia exhibit at St. Paul’s Minnesota History Center. I wanted a picture of the plow, that wooden contraption in

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