rural Illinois

Thomas Hough, an enterprising young man, was born in 1844 into a lower-class family in Yorkshire, England, and didn’t like […]

This is about Granny Jennie’s mother Mary Jane, who dominated the Illinois prairie around her in the late 1800s but

My Granny Jennie, born in 1885, hand-painted this pitcher in an art class in college. She had a college degree,

I am sorting stuff from the attic and basement. I ran across my grandfather’s precision surveying instrument. Later on I