tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75804280185114679822024-03-18T22:03:38.145-06:00Threads and tracesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302277120612983774noreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580428018511467982.post-24126434301367992352016-01-04T07:18:00.000-07:002016-01-04T11:28:28.896-07:00Family legacy challenge week 1: What is your name?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm starting the challenge at Family Legacy: check it out at https://familysearch.org/blog/en/52-questions-52-weeks/ . They claim that this is the easiest way to write your life story. We'll see. Feel free to try it yourself and share the results. Now, if I can only get my parents to play....<br /><br />So. First name. I was named for my great-aunt Sallie Johnson Plemmons, my grandfather McKinley Johnson's older sister. She was a love. I re-met her when I moved to San Diego, where she had settled with her large and loving (and cheerfully crazy...) family. Sallie passed away at the age of 98 1/2, and by consensus the family celebrated her 100th birthday a year or so later anyway. She's a good person to be named for: a sweet, funny, tough woman who moved from Arkansas to New Mexico, survived the Depression in the desert, and made a good life in Southern California. All the Johnsons in this family are smart, share a wicked sense of humor, and look out for each other. <br /><br />Middle name: My mother shared hers with me; we are both S. Yvonnes. She is Shirley Y., so our names are very close. In fact, the original plan was to call her Yvonne, and a Double wedding Ring quilt made for her as a baby has that name embroidered on it. For some reason, they later opted to go with Shirley instead. Now, where Yvonne came from, I am not sure; it's not a name with any other history in my family. More research is needed. <br /><br />Last name: I'm researching the Sheltons and they are tough. Maybe that's because the men were only allowed one of five first names. At least, that's how it seems. More on that soon. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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It's been a while since a note from the Dakotas appeared here, a time of great loss, great gain, change as constant and constant change. 2015 is closing out on a hopeful, wistful note. Snow on the ground, snow in the air, peace on the never-peaceful landscape.<br />
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I plan to greet 2016 by getting a 1930s reminder running. This is a Singer 15-88 from a local thrift store, needing only a belt to get the treadle action going. This makes 5 vintage machines at the homestead, 4 operational and one problematic. This one is as heavy as iron but runs beautifully.<br />
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On Thursday I start the New Year's food: black-eyed peas, cornbread, greens. There are laws, after all. Then I retreat to the women's quarters to make this little machine sing again. So far, she has not told me her name. I will be listening for it.<br />
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Best and brightest 2016 to all.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pelican in flight, Quinn Dam</span></i></div>
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At the end of March, we were looking at the beginning of spring, buds on the trees, no need for snow boots, etc.<br />
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At the end of April, we have dug out from a cumulative 40 inches of snow. The buds are just now beginning to re-show. The migratory birds, slowed by the repeated storm, are starting to come through at last. So we headed east to Wall and Badlands to check out the spring action. Enjoy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Meadowlark, Quinn</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Meadowlark posing, Quinn</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Cottonwood and snow wisps</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I-90 concretia</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Loggerhead shrike seeking next victim</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tree swallow pretending to be a bluebird</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Prairie dogs. I have no explanation for the one at the back right. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Bison bull looking good after the winter</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I <u>said</u>, none shall pass. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Two bison above Sage Creek</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Timelessness</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Only in South Dakota. I am kind of sorry I missed this. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Curlew in the grass, looking for..</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>...the other curlew in the grass. Their calls are hauntingly beautiful. </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Feeding</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Resplendent curlew</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The plumage patterns showed up better in black and white</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Curlews in barbed-wire frame</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Preening and resting after a long migration</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Railroad trestle, Wasta</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pronghorn in sunlight</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Grain elevator, Owanka</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Town greeter, Owanka</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Downfall</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">House, Wasta</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cottonwood, Kiplinger Road</span></i></div>
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On a whim, we left at 5:30 a.m. to chase sage grouse on the high plains. Note: if your whims routinely drag you out at that hour on a Saturday, you either have very peculiar whims, or else have stumbled into the world of birding. Those are not necessarily contradictory. We are at the edge of <a href="http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/birds/sagegrouse/">Greater Sage Grouse</a> territory and have to travel a bit to see this spring display up on the higher plains where there is...wait for it...sage.<br />
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Sage grouse are normally seem as specks in the distance, and this year was no exception. What was exceptional was the closeness of the lekking we saw last year. Rather than post a picture of an animated speck, I'll refer you to <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2011/04/sagebrush-and-sage-grouse.html">this post</a>. We were close enough to see and here the male go through the booming and strutting motions, but not nearly as close this year.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Post office historical marker. We found three of these today. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bear Butte as the clouds begin to form</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Minuteman missile silo still life</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sign, Orman Dam</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cranes in flight, moving north</span></i></div>
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I haven't been here in far too long. I was looking forward to catching up with a long newsy description of the annual trip to the Platte River to watch the <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2010/01/skeins-of-cranes.html">sandhill cranes</a> in their ancient flyways. It's a healing and life-affirming trip. relaxing and schedule-free.<br />
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Nature had a different idea.<br />
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Since we began this trip five years ago, we have seen our tiny rural bridge site in sunshine and shadow, in ice and wind..but never in the first moments of a fierce snowstorm bearing down on the region. The cranes noticed it, too. They were nervous and edgy, gazing north and testing the wind.<br />
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It is spring for them in their lives without winter. We had to leave early to miss the worst of the storm blasting across the West, but still had one of the best crane shows yet. Life is here, now. That was the message I needed, and it was enough. Happy equinox.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lone crane</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Restless circling flight</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Testing the wind</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">It used to happen every
semester. I was teaching a physical geology course, always fun, and would reach the
volcanoes-and-other-explodey things point. And I would realize that I had
forgotten a few key points from the best story of all. So I would call Steven
Utley, and, when he answered, beg him: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">“Tell me about Mont Pelee
again, Steve. Tell me about the cloud.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">And, chin in hands (hard to
hold the phone this way, but never mind), with big Chuck Jones eyes, I would
listen as Steve re-told The Story, as only he could, of that horrific event, the
explosion of Mont Pelee in Martinique in 1902, which he had researched in
crystalline detail for his story <i>The
Glowing Cloud</i>. For me, it was the recounting of the first contemporary
description of that most terrible and wonderful of explosions, the nuée
ardente, with which I would regale my classes. For Steve, it was the tragedy,
the horror, the insanity of a government that condemned its citizens to an unimaginable
death rather than risk having a low voter turn-out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">I forgot key points every
semester just to hear Steve tell the story again. He never seemed to lose
patience with me. I am sure that my students never forgot what a nuée ardente was,
even if they never remembered another word from the lectures. Steve’s story
took over my lecture, every time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">We lost Steve last Saturday
to a vicious and swift-moving cancer. It’s still impossible to grasp a world
without his commentary, his observations, his take on things. He was one of the
few people I could point to as a true Renaissance dude. Witness his blog entry
from October: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">20 October 2012 @ 12:37 pm<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://impatientape.livejournal.com/57928.html"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Reading Room</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not that I needed
more books in my house, not that I didn't
already have sufficient reading matter in hand to last me through the winter,
but I went to a Friends of the Library book sale in Murfreesboro this morning
and came away with the following hardcovers:<br />
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
-- Albert Camus<br />
Adam Bede -- George Eliot<br />
A Brief History of Time From the Big
Bang to Black Holes -- Stephen W. Hawking<br />
Tanglewood Tales -- Nathaniel
Hawthorne<br />
Joseph Stalin: Man & Legend
-- Ronald Hingley<br />
Gideon at Work: Three Complete Mystery
Novels -- J. J. Marric (a John Creasey pen name)<br />
Grave Mistake and Two Other Great
Mysteries -- Ngaio Marsh<br />
Photo Finish and Two Other Great
Mysteries -- Ngaio Marsh<br />
Ashenden or: The British Agent
-- W. Somerset Maugham<br />
Triple Zeck: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus
-- Rex Stout<br />
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I do almost all my reading stretched out in bed, and there's nearly always a
stack of books at my bedside. Currently: The
Holy Terror, by H. G. Wells; House
of Ghosts (a Shadow
novel reprinted from the old pulp magazine), by Walter Gibson; 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories,
edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dzienmianowicz, and Martin H. Greenberg; and The Classic Book of Science Fiction
(originally published in 1950 as The
Big Book of Science Fiction), edited by Groff Conklin.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Current Music:</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mozart, Don Giovanni (Overture),
Salzburg Festival Orch.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hardly know where to start with Utley
stories. Steve was the master of the unexpected grace note, the bombshell
comment. Years ago I was packed off from Austin for a summer in the UK. It felt
much like being packed off for summer camp. I was the only American, never mind
the only Texan, in the crew, and was feeling a bit lost in the mix…until I got
a huge box from Austin. Don’t ask me how it cleared Customs. It probably
shouldn’t have. Inside was a Technicolor selection of every kind of Tex-Mex comestible ever
canned by Clemente Jacques. It was the fixings for a Southwest dinner for 8.
Tortillas. Frijoles. Salsas of several kinds. And weapons-grade jalapenos. It
was literally a piece of home. 20 years later, it still ranks as one of the
best gifts ever. That the jalapenos were too hot for the alleged curry-immune
Brits was a bonus. Texas won that one, thanks to Steve. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I saved tales from the fossil front for
Steve, who appreciated them more than anyone else I ever knew. He wanted to
know what made paleontologists tick. Many people would like to know that,
especially before the statute of limitations runs out. Steve wanted to know
what it was REALLY like—including the tedium, the precision, the search for an
elusive truth, the hunt for clues to a past that we can’t really imagine. His
choice of the Silurian for his stories was inspired. As he said, it was a time
when, standing on land, it looked as if nothing ever happened. No screaming
dinosaurs here. Just people, out of their time, ceaselessly monitoring a world
like no other, and on our own planet. No gimmicks leaping out of the trees. No
trees at all. What was the unbelievably distant past really like? Steve went
there, and made it real. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">And then there was the
plesiosaur in Austin. A sharp-eyed citizen spotted fossil bits in the bed of
then-dry Shoal Creek, threading its way through a residential area. Once we
started to retrieve it, we could not leave it unattended without risking theft
or vandalism or just well-intentioned tampering. That meant staying at the site
in shifts around the clock. Sleeping bags. Tents. Staying awake in the
extremely small hours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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started. And lightning. And cold wind. And more rain. Let’s hear it for the
glamour and adventure of paleontology. Better yet, let’s find shelter somewhere
out of what is no longer a dry stream bed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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under the bridge, soaked and muddy, hating the site and plesiosaurs and all
fossils, and the whole planet and each other, in no particular order, when
Steve Utley showed up, nicely dressed, with a bottle of good brandy, and joined
us. We were oddly short on fine crystal, and wound up passing the bottle around.
Kids, this is what a good graduate school education can do for you, too—sharing
a bottle of booze under a bridge, listening to the thunder and the cars, and
laughing for hours. It took Steve to drag us out of a fine slough of self-pity
that night, and he did it with great class. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stories would go. An encounter I had with a fervent creationist somehow wound
up as the center of an Utley story, <i>The
Dinosaur Season</i>. I was stunned and flattered. The near-eponymous professor
in the story, who didn’t even find out about it for a few years, was not so
much amused. In fact, just not at all. He demanded to know who wrote this. “A
friend of mine,” I said. He walked off without a word. Clearly he thought my friend
and I deserved each other. Clearly he was right. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stack of tapes Steve sent over the years, mostly blues. The memories are
crowding back. In her tribute to her late mother, Steve’s correspondent Molly
Ivins said “…<span style="background: white;">if someone truly wanted to
memorialize my mother, that person would eat a piece of fudge today, hug
someone he or she loves and be blindingly pleasant to a total stranger.</span>”
To me, if someone wanted to memorialize Steve, that person would take time to
save a stray cat no matter what, pull up a stack of seriously good books, and
take time to write a note—WRITE a note—to someone too long unseen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today in family history: Emma Nellie Keese Kelly, who had just turned 19, died in Kellyville, Marion County, Texas, in 1880. She was the daughter of my great-great grandfather <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2011/03/confederados.html">George Washington Keese</a>, who was born in Georgia and migrated to Caldwell, Texas, with his family by 1850. Somewhere along the way, in Tennessee, George married <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2011/11/clorinda-and-harriet.html">Harriet Adeline Perkins</a>, who according to census records was born in Vermont, whose story is uncertain. Emma Nellie was their youngest child.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Emma Nellie married Lewis Dennis Kelly, whose father <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke10">George Addison Kelly</a> was a founder of the industrial settlement known as Kellyville or Kellysville (originally named Four-Mile Branch). The Kelly Foundry, Furnace and Plow Company manufactured and reapaired agricultural equipment, and during the Confederacy produced ammunition as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to the <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvk12">Texas State Historical Association</a>, "By 1880 the Kelly Iron Works was listed as the state's outstanding producer of agricultural implements, the Kelly Blue Plow being its most popular finished product. However, due to the loss of cheap water transport following removal of the Red River Raft, a fire that destroyed his furnace, and a joint-stock arrangement with the state Grange not suitable to him, Kelly closed his foundry and moved his plow production operation to Longview in 1882. Kellyville rapidly declined." Kellyville and its decline is discussed in T. Lindsey Baker's <i>Ghost Towns of Texas</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Emma died before the foundry moved and Kellyville became a <a href="http://www.texasescapes.com/EastTexasTowns/Kellyville-Texas.htm">ghost town</a>. Her infant son, George A. Kelly, born just before her own birthday in November 1879, died in February 1880, less than two months after her own death. Lewis died in June 1880. Kellyville was abandoned in 1883. It's not often that so much is so thoroughly lost in one small family. I do not know what happened to Emma Nellie; there is so much that could have happened, but we can only speculate.</span><br />
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Having once more taken care of that peculiarly <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2010/12/family-recipe-monday-new-year.html">Southern ritual</a> of serving black-eyed peas, cornbread and green leafy stuff for luck in the New Year, we are looking out on a somewhat snowy landscape and watching the sunset in tones of blue. A little later today; we've passed the solstice and are heading into longer days. The light slants just a bit less today than it did yesterday, and will ease up another notch tomorrow. You notice these things up here, just as you notice the scent of snow. Yes, it has one.<br />
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The family genealogy project now includes records for over 16,000 people, on both sides of the family. Cousins continued to marry cousins, so the intertwining can be dizzyingly complex. I am finding that I am most interested in the ones who kept looking for the next frontier, the next promised land, the next homestead. There is so little left of their hard work, which is why those small structures on the endless prairies stop me in my tracks every time. They were not always so silent.<br />
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Today in ancestral history: Ambrose Cobb, 10th great-grandfather on the Brooks/Honnoll side, died in 1605 in Kent, England. He was 42 years old and didn't get out of Kent during his lifetime, as far as I can tell. At this remove of time, there is so little that we know about people who just lived their lives without fanfare. His descendants made up for it, though. His son Ambrose emigrated to Virginia, eventually patenting 350 acres on the Appomattox River. There is speculation that he first built an English-style small thatched house, followed by a mansion known as the Cobbs Hall. Ambrose and his line are ancestral to the <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2011/12/savages-and-moons.html">Savages, Moons</a> and eventually <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2011/03/130-year-old-quilt.html">Nancy Ellinor Honnoll</a>; Cobbs Hall is the burial place of Col. John Bolling, only great-grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, to whom there is a whisper of a connection on the Shelton side of the family. I think I am related to everyone in the world at least twice at this point, and have just started calling everyone "Cousin Cousin" for simplicity's sake.<br />
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Ambrose's descendants didn't stay in Virginia long, not all of them, anyway. They moved onward, south and west, from Virginia to South Carolina to Hardeman County, Tennessee (named for, again, a family connected to the Shelton side of the family), and on to Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma. They lived in structures far more like the thatched house than like Cobbs Hall, including half-dugouts on the plains. There was always some kind of roof made out of the materials at hand, it seems.<br />
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Starting this week, I will be part of the city Historic Preservation Commission, which I hope will help me put these tiny architectural stories into a good context. If I have a philosophy about all of this, it's that one should learn everything possible about the immediate vicinity and the recent ancestors, while those stories can still be saved, so that we have images and sounds and accounts of the people themselves, not just the structures they left.<br />
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So it's been a few weeks. This semester (I will spend my life dividing the year into semesters, which, when you think about it, is Not Normal) was the most hectic yet since we loaded up the covered wagon and moved to this prairie outpost. Sometimes it's difficult to know where, if anywhere, the fixed points of our orbits are. </div>
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It was a day for deep, peaceful silences, cracking ice, a light so brilliant that everything seemed illuminated from within. It was not a day for flocks of birds. This is South Dakota. In winter. Birds aren't stupid. Most of them headed out over a month ago, late this year. Everything that could hide or hibernate did so, leaving us to the colors of winter grasses, tall formations, and ice. The bighorn sheep joined us all day, moving down to marginally warmer grazing. </div>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Deep mud cracks and ice. It has been a fiercely dry year. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is just like us to oversleep and miss the coyote calling contest by a week. That was no doubt a highlight of the social season. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Junior. Seems late in the year for one this small....</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wary watchfulness</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sweep of the river. We saw a short-eared owl flying across this in its own sweeps, but it never got close enough for a good picture. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Conata Road in gold light</span></em></div>
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Here's hoping everyone found time during the holidays to tap into that same deep peace and silence. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580428018511467982.post-14822826799979465332012-11-14T09:51:00.000-07:002012-11-14T09:59:48.670-07:00Definitive cornbread dressing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>I</b>n the spirit of Thanksgiving and sharing, I am happy to present the absolute, the standard against which all others are to be judged, the definitive cornbread dressing recipe, updated by cornbread guru <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2010/11/family-recipe-monday-dressings-and.html">Bill Page</a>. "Dressing guru" sounded a bit strange. This updates an <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2010/11/family-recipe-monday-dressings-and.html">earlier</a> truncated version. Take some time to enjoy making this. <i>Festina lente</i>, y'all. </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please note: it's dressing, not stuffing. </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><strong>Real Southern Cornbread Dressing</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Making cornbread dressing is an art, not an exact
science. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This recipe makes enough dressing for a crowd of
30 or more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Experiment with the recipe to match what your
family likes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember, cornbread dressing is a special type of
bread pudding ... you need plenty of liquid to start with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do not cook the dressing inside or with the
turkey. You run the risk of undercooking one item or overcooking the other.
Just cook the dressing in its own pan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oil the roasting pan. I use PAM, but you can use
butter or Wesson oil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most recipes call for equal amounts of white
bread and corn bread. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I use a little more cornbread, and a little less
white bread, rather than a 50-50 mix, roughly 2/3 corn bread and 1/3 white
bread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the white bread, use rolls or biscuits, not
plain white bread. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Buy the cheap kind of canned biscuits--those
without butter or other flavoring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can also substitute crushed unsalted saltine
crackers for some of the white bread. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rip the bread into pieces about the size of the
end of your thumb--it's therapeutic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I usually cook about 40 biscuits and 48 dinner
rolls. This makes enough for me to eat a few while I am cooking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cook this bread several days early, rip it up,
freeze it, and then pull it out to thaw the night before the day you will cook
the dressing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I make four 8.5 x 11 pans of yellow cornbread
(each pan requires 3 packages of instant cornbread--so, you need to buy 12
packages total of cornbread mix). The corn bread should be crumbled into
lumps. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can make the cornbread from scratch, but it
will not improve the flavor. I cook the cornbread in advance, crumble it,
freeze it, and put it out to thaw the night before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you live in a dry climate, you can let the
bread and cornbread sit out and go slightly stale (the mixture soaks up more
liquid that way). Otherwise, you can lightly toast the bread, if you want. But,
you can also use untoasted bread if you prefer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You will have bread left over after you assemble
the dressing. This is okay --the exact amount you will need will vary depending
on how dry it is and how much liquid it absorbs. Bread is cheap, and it is okay
to throw some away (or feed the birds) -- but you don’t want to be left short when
making dressing, trying to get more at the last minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most recipes call for a lot more celery, but
unless your crowd is a big fan of celery, err on the side of adding too little.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in case you decide you need more onion flavor at the last minute, after you
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sauté the onions and celery before you mix
everything together. As my mother and my Aunt Madge both used to say, no one
wants to bite down on a piece of raw celery. I do this the day before, when it
is less hectic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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oil. While that is cooking, I thaw the onions in the microwave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then I sauté the onions (separate from the
celery), again using Wesson oil. You can use other vegetable oils, but avoid
any with a strong flavor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After those vegetables are cooked, I mix in
some of the butter (or margarine) and sage, and let those flavors meld together
in the refrigerator overnight. I am not sure it makes a lot of difference,
except that it is less work when I am actually putting the mixture together
right before baking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I add two or three small tubs of margarine to
the dressing. You can use butter, if you prefer. This total includes the butter
you already added to the onion / celery mix.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't tell much difference between using
butter or margarine. The butter has a slightly better flavor, but it also makes
the dressing greasier. Soften the butter/ margarine before you add it to the
celery and onions – this makes mixing the ingredients much easier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When its time to add the celery / onion
mixture to the dressing, soften it first in the microwave. This makes it much
easier to mix the ingredients.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A lot of recipes saw to use poultry seasoning.
Well, I use sage, and only about half as much as most recipes suggest. I
usually add two or three teaspoons of sage – sometimes just a bit more. This
depends on how well your crew likes sage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The most important thing is, buy a new bottle
of sage. Old sage doesn't have much flavor (which is a good thing, according to
some people). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tossing out the old bottle of sage is a
Thanksgiving tradition at my house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most recipes say add salt and pepper to taste. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Salt may or may not be needed, depending on
how salty your broth is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I add 4 to 6 eggs slightly beaten. You really
do not have to beat the eggs, but you will probably break the yokes when you
crack the eggs, and beating them slightly does not add much labor to the
overall process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you're concerned about salmonella, you can
add the egg last – because all great cooks (ahem) taste the dressing as they go
along. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've never heard of anyone getting sick from
the eggs in raw dressing, and I don't worry about it (you can quote me on your
tombstone).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I would not feed raw dressing to a young
child or to a person with health problems … why tempt fate?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You need to add chicken broth or bouillon. I
use a mixture of canned broth and powdered bouillon. You can make your own
broth but I can't tell much difference, except it's a lot more work to cook the
broth first. However, the broth does smell wonderful when it’s simmering. And
if you carve the turkey the night before, cooking the bones makes you feel
really virtuous. As for me, I favor sloth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I generally use two 2.25 ounce jars of
Weylen’s Chicken bouillon granules (mixed in 3 or 4 cups of water), plus 2 to 4
cans of low sodium chicken broth. You can buy the more expensive organic
chicken broth, but I can’t tell any difference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are worried about the dressing having
too strong a chicken flavor, add less of the powdered bouillon granules to
start with. You can always add more later, but you can’t take it out once it is
in the dressing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I add enough milk to make the mixture
"soupy". I usually use four small cans of canned milk, which makes
for a richer flavor. If you use regular milk, you may want to increase the
amount of butter somewhat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you need more liquid, you can add a little
water, or plain milk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The desired texture of the raw dressing is
hard to describe – it should be a bit thicker than lumpy oatmeal, and you
should have a little free liquid around the edge of the pan. Remember, you want
the raw dressing to be “goopy” – this is a bread pudding you are making. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The raw dressing should taste about like the
final product, after it has been cooked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It usually takes me 20 to 30 minutes to
assemble the raw dressing – just about long enough for the oven to get hot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bake in a covered container. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you want, you can uncover the dressing for
the last 10 to 15 minutes, either to brown the top of the dressing, or if you
get too much liquid in the mix this will dry it out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cooking time depends partly on how much
liquid you used. It typically takes between 1 ¼ and 1 ½ hours – sometimes a
little more, sometimes a little less. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The dressing will stay hot for a long time,
especially if you wrap the pan in clean towels.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, </div>
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Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; </div>
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Conspiring with him how to load and bless </div>
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With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; </div>
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To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, </div>
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And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; </div>
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To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells </div>
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With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, </div>
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And still more, later flowers for the bees, </div>
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Until they think warm days will never cease, </div>
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For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.</div>
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Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? </div>
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Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find </div>
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Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, </div>
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Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; </div>
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Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep, </div>
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Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook </div>
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Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: </div>
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And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep </div>
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Steady thy laden head across a brook; </div>
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Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, </div>
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Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.</div>
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<em>Leaving September stars and a little smoke</em><br />
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Tartan Girl spent a moving day at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday and sends this to all.<br />
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"The picture you have is of a block of marble--just marble at the end of a hall in honor of women in military service at Arlington National Cemetery. A moving memorial in a hallowed place that is filled with grace and and solitude, though with quiet vigilance for the grief of us still here.<br />
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"I came to this place today to honor two of you, and found this sight to honor all of you. The picture you have is of a piece of marble that is called the Sister Block--the little sister of the marble that was used in the construction of the Tomb of the Unknowns. Although she is smaller and somehow softer than her big brother, she stands as resolutely as he in honor to those resting in this honored place. Having a life made exquisite by brothers and sisters I can appreciate something deeper about her.<br />
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"I'd not met her, but I am so glad that I did today. You were each arrived with me today, and I was glad for your company. It was a day of clouds and breeze that would turn to thunderstorms and downpours.....but I was lucky enough to meet this little sister before I left.<br />
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"Thank you each for the grace and strength you bring to my life and for the endless joy you offer. I would not be here without you...."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grandfather Theophilus seems to have been a restless man who
never really settled anywhere. He was born in 1803 Pittsylvania, Virginia, the
son of another Thomas W. By the age of 27 he had married and moved to Kentucky,
which at the time was still considered the West. He may have migrated to
Indiana and back. In 1870 he was part of the younger Thomas W.’s home in Texas,
but by 1880 was back in Kentucky with a new wife. He died in 1888. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The younger Thomas W. moved from Kentucky to Texas by 1860
and stayed there. His descendants stayed in the Plano-Dallas area for the new
few generations. His son, Robert Thomas, was a lawyer and judge in Plano. My
grandfather was his youngest son. I have no photos or portraits of anyone in this family except my grandfather. I have no idea what they were like. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did find out that my silent grandfather was—astonishingly,
unbelievably—in the debate club in Plano High School. His father must have been
a capable, likely eloquent, speaker in his career. My grandfather may have been
trying to live up to his father’s example. There is no way to know what my
grandfather wanted to do, or be, before WWI and the shadows it brought over
him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Robert Thomas was giving my grandfather a long-established
family name when he named him Ralph. Ralph Sheltons go back at least to 1200,
with titles. I count 15 of them in the family history so far. It’s one of the
most-often encountered Shelton men’s first names in my search so far. The
least-often encountered in my work is Theophilus. Had it not been for the
uniqueness of that name, I might not have made this connection. Given the
uncertainty of this field, that connection may not be correct. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We know so little about my grandfather, and less about his
family. We do know that PTSD, or shell shock, or soldier’s heart, or whatever
every generation calls the toll of war on the survivors, is devastating even
now. I cannot imagine what it was like at a time when such things were not discussed.
My grandfather did not, perhaps could not, tell us his own story. Theophilus
may help me put it together. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I wanted to get at something of the history of my
grandfather, who almost undoubtedly had untreated PTSD, who could not make
himself whole again and had no one whom he trusted to talk to except a quiet
grandson. I wanted to do this as part of working with my father to put his
family history together for what is perhaps the first time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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line, is huge. They married young and often, had lots of children, intermarried
distant and not-so-distant cousins, and in general would keep a professional
genealogist busy for a long time. (Six Hardeman boys married six Keese girls
over the years. And some of their kids married some other of their kids. It
looks less like a tree than like kudzu.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My grandfather Shelton’s line hit a brick wall very early
on. I could take it back two generations, no more. We went from Ralph Sr. to
Robert Thomas Shelton to Thomas W. Shelton, then the rest was silence. Thomas
W. was born in Virginia and died in Plano, Texas. There are lots and lots of
Sheltons in Virginia, and the men have a limited set of first names: they tend
to be Thomas, William, Ralph, Robert, and Richard. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The ur-Sheltons are English and in some instances come from Shelton, Norfolk,
UK. They connect to the Boleyns, to Patrick Henry, to Meriwether Lewis. Not all
of them were nice, or even sane, but they have an interesting history. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it, online genealogy ranges from pinpoint accuracy to speculative fiction.
People write down the wrong information. Boys lie about their ages to get into
the military. Parentage is misrepresented to descendants. Some people want
desperately to be descended from Charlemagne rather than from Charlie Smith.
Look at the consternation over the acceptance of the descendants of Thomas
Jefferson and Sallie Hemings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Still, I wanted to know if my small Shelton line connected
to the bigger one, so I collected data on all of them I could find, especially
the ones in Virginia. Oddly enough, I was related to them through other lines
(those Hintons are everywhere!), just not directly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And there, in addition to his wife and children, were two
older people in his household, both in their late 60s: Elizabeth and Theophilus
Shelton. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had a Theophilus in the Shelton lines. There was only one.
The dates matched. If, as I assume, this was Thomas W.’s father, the lines
connected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That ticking noise you hear was the sound of a row of
hundreds of dominoes falling over and landing in place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Theophilus Quincy Shelton, meet your descendants. Hopefully. If I did this right. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A note from a friend reminded me that this blog has not been
updated in approximately forever. It’s
been one of those assignments subjected to a rigorous program of deferred
maintenance. In 10 words: travel, life, work, nothing wrong, everything hectic,
deadlines whooshing by. In a few more: drought, fires, good friends in town,
good friends across the country. We put 4000 miles on the van during the first two weeks of June, an adventure that still needs to be documented once the statute of limitations elapses....<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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front. That’s as good a place as any to start for a catch-up post. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I started this project, it was for my father as much as
anything. I’ve gone through my whole life to date telling people that, no, I
don’t know any Shelton relatives outside my immediate family of origin and my
father’s parents. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My mother’s family and my paternal grandmother’s family were
people I could understand. They talked to children, usually nicely. They were
involved in the world. The relatives I knew and grew up with were a hugely
varied lot, from the last gasps of the Deep South/East Texas would-be aristocracy to hard-scrabble
homesteaders and half-dugout dwellers. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My paternal grandfather, Ralph Sr., was the silent man, not
silent in a strong way, but silent in a deeply withdrawn way. I doubt that I
heard him say more than 20 words in my lifetime. My father is an only child,
and left home for good when he left for college. My grandfather’s silence was
deep and irrevocable. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I knew he had relatives whom he never saw. The story from my
grandmother was that, when he left to fight in World War I, his family decided
that he was not coming back, so they sold his things and cashed his checks as
they came in. I have no way of checking the truth of this, but it is certain
that he had almost no contact with his family once he returned. He went to
Detroit to train as a mechanic, then returned to Dallas for the rest of his
life. His orbit grew ever smaller. By the time I came along, he was apparently locked
into the silence. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m a poster child for oldest sibling syndrome. I take
responsibility for everything, and every time something goes wrong, I assume it’s
my fault. My grandfather’s silence was puzzling and uncomfortable. I always
thought that he didn't like me. Or children. Or my family. Or all of the above.
Since I didn't know what I had done wrong or how to make things better, I
tended to edge away from him. I wish now that I hadn't. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We visited my Shelton grandparents a couple of times a year
or so. My grandmother always had places for us to go and people for us to
visit, so we didn't sit around the house very much. On one of these visits,
when my brother was perhaps 4 years old, my father overheard something amazing.
My grandfather was telling my brother about the battle in the Argonne, and how
only two or three of them came back, and then had to go out again the next day.
That’s all my father heard, and my grandfather stopped talking after that. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tipi at Agate Fossil Beds, framing the Bone Cabin</span></i></div>
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For the first time since I moved back to the prairies, I was able to co-lead one of our field camps. This one focused on the geology and paleontology of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, an under-appreciated gem in the Nebraska Panhandle. I had grand plans of posting something from there every night. </div>
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Let me tell you about internet and cell phone connectivity out there. They use the finest cotton string money can buy. But the light and the quietness were more than enough. Two weeks was nowhere near enough. </div>
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Now we are on our way back East for another couple of weeks. I'm sure I'll be connected, but I'll miss the deep peace. </div>
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We were back in the Iron Lightning Badlands today, courtesy of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Cultural Preservation Office. After a good three months of warm temperatures and clear days, today was cold, damp, muddy, and even snowy at times. Welcome to spring on the northern Plains. </div>
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So we have a project at Dinosaur National Monument that may keep us busy for months. Years. The Monument has been through the ultimate institutional trauma over the past decade, being forced to close down a failing building and essentially tear it down and build it back at the same time. While protecting the quarry face full of dinosaur (and other) fossils. And satisfying the requirements for dealing with rebuilding buildings on the National Historic Register.<br />
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We are going to help figure out if the new building is doing its job, so that future generations of dreamy-eyed kids can continue to be stunned into speechlessness by the silent fossils on their precarious slope. This is one of the National Park Service's outstanding sites, along with Badlands and Agate and a host of others. I'll keep a running journal of our work there.<br />
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For me, it's like meeting a rock star (so to speak). Or being one.<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Lots of travel lately, by my estimate 1700 miles in 5 days. I am still sorting out the shots of the longer trip to Utah. Today was a drive in the much-needed spring sun to Eagle Butte and back. </span>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Highway 212 is a long, straight line from Edina, Minnesota, to Yellowstone National Park. In South Dakota, it crosses an infinite landscape of hills and buttes, almost hypnotically. Buildings are startling, towns unexpected. It is a good drive for refocusing. </span></div>
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Friday morning of the crane trip started with a heavy fog over our bridge. It was magic, though the drive there had its white-knuckle moments. As the fog burned off, we started surveying the fields and found the largest flocks we had ever seen, anywhere. As the day progressed, huge flocks broke off and spiraled upward. We were right there for the beginning of the final leg of their migration, north to the Arctic breeding grounds. An amazing day.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The beginning of our drive across the Nebraska Sandhills and down to the Platte River</span></i></div>
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It was March. It was crane season on the Platte. This year, we had friends with us for the largest group yet, and the weather was glorious. (Remember we have been frozen in place after standing on our favorite rural bridge in ice and snow.) This year brought early morning fog and mists which cleared into warm, brilliant days.<br />
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Thursday was a road day with a long, bright sunset on the bridge. We watched them drift onto the fields and start heading for their site on the North Platte River. (To be continued...)<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">More cranes in the field</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Whoa, horsie! Whoa, horsie! Please whoa, horsie!—Yosemite Sam</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This
is an interesting week in the family history saga. I seem to be alternating
between lines that run hard into a brick wall, and lines that show no sign of
ending. I’m working backward from the known to the unknown ancestors, and some
of them are showing up and some of them aren’t. As a rank amateur at this
stuff, I look at a combined list of 9600+ with great trepidation: who are all these
people, and just how many ancestors can I have? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well,
of course, lots. Powers of 2. We are at least theoretically talking about the exponential
increase from 1 person to 2 to…too many for a house party. I’m working with 27<sup>th</sup>
great-grandparents right now. Theoretically, I should have 134,217,728 in the
27<sup>th</sup> generation back, or 268,435,456 in the 28<sup>th</sup>. That
makes the 9600+ group I have look pathetic. Of course, humans being what they
are, especially in isolated areas with attractive cousins, the math is not that
clean and the numbers are not that large. There are more common ancestors than
we realize. And that’s complicated further by the accuracy of genealogical
records, which can range from pinpoint perfection to speculative fiction. Still, it's clear that I don't have much of the picture, which tends to emerge 2 people at a time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6 March 1954: We just celebrated the 58<sup>th</sup> wedding anniversary of <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2011/03/ralph-and-shirley-ii.html">Ralph and Shirley Shelton</a>. This is also the date of the final fall of the Alamo, but never mind.
58 years ago these two kids, finishing up their degrees, booked First Methodist
Church in Lubbock and made it official. This year, thanks to sister Laura, they
duded up in their best clothes and went to a <i>La Traviata</i> concert performance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Shirley, if I’ve done the genealogy right, have a common ancestor, making
them many-generations-removed cousins. (NB: if you ever discover something like
this in your own family, do not announce it to your parents by calling them
Aunt Mom and Uncle Dad. The ensuing conversation will be a bit tense. This is the voice of experience here. Besides, what
does that make me?) Both are descended from the Hinton line. Shirley’s maternal
great-grandfather, John Hinton Walker, is part of an unbroken line of Hintons
that goes back to Ulbert Dehynton in England sometime around 1000. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Skip
to 1574, when Thomas Hinton is born in Suffolk. Thomas marries Catherine Palmer
in 1595. Of this marriage, there are two siblings of interest here: John
(1603-1682), who is a direct ancestor of my mother on the maternal side, the
Walker family, and Mary Francis Hinton (Matthews) (1601-1675), who is a direct ancestor
of my father’s maternal line, the Summers family. Thomas is my 11<sup>th</sup>
great-grandfather; Mary is my 10<sup>th</sup> great-grandmother; you can work
out the cousinage for yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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March 1790: John Hinton’s great-great
grandson, Uriah Hinton Blanchard, dies in Chowan, North Carolina. His
grandfather William came over from England and apparently liked the look of the
Carolina countryside. Uriah (another Name You Just Don’t Hear Any More) lived
there his whole life. Not until the 19<sup>th</sup> century would the
south-and-west wanderlust take the Blanchards out of North Carolina and on to
Mississippi and Oklahoma. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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March 1907: Thomas W. Shelton dies in Plano, Texas, at the age of 78. He is buried there at Plano
Mutual Cemetery. Thomas is one of my most frustrating brick walls. He was born
in Virginia (a hotbed of Sheltons) in 1828, but so far I have no record of his
ancestry. By 1850 he is in Kentucky, where in 1853 he marries Lydia Theresa
Rowland. Her line goes back forever, deep into Viking territory, but his stops
at his birth. There are other Sheltons that enter—of all things—the Hinton line (those Hintons!) in the 1100s, but so far I have not made these lines connect. Thomas farmed in Collin County, Texas; his
son became a lawyer and judge in Plano. A newspaper article about him published 2 years
before his death describes him thus: “Mr Shelton is now advanced in years, so also is his long life companion. In quietude and contentment they are waiting, on a pleasant evening, till the sun of life goes down and they, as nearly all their contemporaries have done, will make the last removal, that of going to the country sought by all the good of ages.”</span></div>
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March 1910: Thomas J. Brooks dies in McLean, Texas, at the age of 59. The
wanderlust was strong in this one. His ancestry is also not known; we hit the
brick wall hard here. He may have been adopted. Thomas moved from Georgia to
South Carolina to Arkansas by the time he was 20. He married Sarah Catherine
Wren there and moved on to Texas. They raised 12 children, of whom my
great-grandfather Joseph Newton Brooks was the fourth and <a href="http://threadsandtraces.blogspot.com/2011/05/art-iww-and-wwi.html">Art Brooks</a> was the
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There is a DNA project to track down the related male Brooks family
members. Maybe there will be an answer to his ancestry. Maybe there will be two. </span><o:p></o:p></div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580428018511467982.post-70662031617720686402012-03-04T22:24:00.001-07:002012-03-04T22:25:16.508-07:00Sunday in pictures: Radar Hill, Elm Springs and White Owl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We were supposed to have serious snow, if not an outright blizzard, earlier in the week. Didn't happen. Was supposed to happen again yesterday. Didn't. Today? Nope. So, having no excuse to stay inside, we loaded up the camera and hit the back roads to put it through its paces. Nothing posted here has been Photoshopped or edited. All errors are my own original product. As you can see, I'm playing with light. As you can also see, I'm in love with the b/w feature (which for some reason is called "monochrome." It's anything but.).<br />
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I used the day as a opportunity to get some shots at tiny rural cemeteries for <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/">Find a Grave</a>. This site has helped me so much with my own genealogical work that I'm glad to be able to help document these little places in turn. Sometimes these shots are the only proof a family has of an ancestor's life. That's especially true out here, where so many in my generation and after left the land and moved to town.<br />
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It was a lovely day with oddly pastel light. Enjoy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Steeple</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Distant house</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Barn</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Lakeside Cemetery</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Twin cabins</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Belle Fourche river banks</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Belle Fourche river</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Abandoned farmhouse</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tractor</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sign, Elm Springs Cemetery</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Horseshoe cross, Elm Springs Cemetery</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Belle Fourche River </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Belle Fourche River</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Boot on fence, no explanation</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Minuteman missile silo site; this area was honeycombed with them. It's sobering to think how devastated this area would have been if these had been launched, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Abandoned house</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">White Owl Cemetery gates</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">White Owl store</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>House with Bear Butte in the distance</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Afternoon light</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Prairie road</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bald eagles leaving the scene of the roadkill</span></i></div>
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