GlenndeavourA Wonderful Adventure

My brother Ray has been moved to a small center for rehabilitation and is doing well. I called our Neice, Barbara Bakk Esienbraun, in Lincloln, Neb. to alert her as to Rays’ condition. I was reminded as I talked to her(by myself) that it was Barbara who never left our side as Donna and I [...]

Saturday I went to a tractor pull in Glendale, Az. As soon as I got thru the gate I saw a gentleman wearing a tractor shirt that had Rollag, Mn. on it. I asked him where Rollag was and his companion asked me where I was from. Of course I said, Hills, Mn. The other [...]

I was about 25 years old and the picture is taken at Garettson, S.D. canyon where Jesse James is alleged to have jumped across at one place on his horse as he was being pursued after the Nothfield Mn. bank robbery.

I missed this pictue in its proper order.I’m the guy with the tie. Age 5?

I missed this one in the realm of things. This was perhaps my junior class picture

My Mother had been a widow for over a year at this time. She remained a widow until her death.

18 days after graduating from High School I was drafted into the army.The date was June 18, 1945, and the German’s had surrendered and only Japan was left to take care of. I thank President Harry S. Truman for dropping the atom bomb because I was on my way to the west coast,Ft. MacArthur [...]

We belonged to the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Hills, Mn. One was usually confirmed when one was in the 9th grade so I was probably 15 years old.The picture was taken on the Rye farm 2 miles west of Hills. The 11940 Dodge in the background belonged to my Father’s brother, Uncle Peder

My Father read about this contest in the Rock County Star newspaper in Luverne, Minnesota. The one’s who sold 36 or more subscriptions to the paper received prizes among them a new bike.As you can see, he was successful and the joy is reflected in my eyes.I must have been 10 or 11 at [...]