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May 06, 2023  •  Leave a Comment
The Linn County Home Christmas party, 1977 and Julia Wilkins reacting to Chris Dewey, June 1977 ~ I wrote about the Linn County Home Christmas party in the preceding blog entry. There’s not much more to say about the event and I’ll write about the staff dynamics in subsequent blog posts with more particular photos. Chris Dewey had one of the most...
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April 22, 2023  •  Leave a Comment
Christmas at the Linn County Home, 1978 ~ I was just finishing my penultimate semester at Cornell College. Janet and I had gotten married the preceding May and she graduated the day after. For the first several years of our relationship Janet had planned to go to seminary after college and become a Methodist minister. I had been anticipating bec...
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April 21, 2023  •  Leave a Comment
Weston family Thanksgiving? Easter? 1980? ’81? ~ At my paternal grandparents’ farmhouse. Pat and Crystal Tippetts Weston's. This is similar to every holiday meal I’ve had there. My mother ran the kitchen, though it was Crystal’s. That caused tension. I can’t remember a photo with both of them together, let alone side by side. Mom had a B.A. in h...
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April 19, 2023  •  Leave a Comment
July 1981 ~ The quarry is a magical place. It was the site for the gathering of the tribes. My friends Jerry and MaryBeth Sixt had a father who made a fortune inventing plastic drainage tile for farm fields. They had a mother with a PhD in geology who taught at the university. Their parents bought a farm house and quarry north of Iowa City. T...
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April 09, 2023  •  Leave a Comment
Photographs of Janet’s parents visiting, July 1980, and of a United Action for Youth jam session led by Sonny, February 1980 ~ This was the last time I saw Janet’s parents, Warren and Irene Paige. They came out to visit us in our new rental house on a farmstead three miles north of Tipton, Iowa. Janet had a new internship in rural community deve...
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