Historic Scattergood Quaker Interviews
I don’t know the dates when this project occurred. Evidently, some Scattergood Friends School students went to Quaker meeting communities to collect stories.
Two Meetings, Two Families
As I sat in the Central City Meeting House in May, I became aware that our two meetings had a strong connection coming out of a shared history. Although the two meetings are affiliated with different branches of Friends, over the years we have gotten together as there were few other Friends in Nebraska. Both…
PITH HELMET PREMONITION
Clarence Pickard The Oliver Tractor Company used to reward solid customers with white pith helmets. Indianola farmer and retired extension agent Clarence Pickard must once have purchased an Oliver because he owned one of those helmets. It was to come in handy when he volunteered for Peace Corps service at the age of 76. In…
Ashley Shanahan Family Remembers Don Laughlin
The Ashley Shanahan family is very sad that we could not be at Don Laughlin’s memorial. Each and every one of us hold special images and memories of our time with Don. As 6 year olds, twins Kieran and Callum declared Don was “their new best Friend” after he introduced them to his spectacular house…
Memories of Don Laughlin
I imagine Don and Lois were familiar to me as I grew up in Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), but my first memories of them were from my days as a student at Scattergood Friends School (1966-70), when Lois was the librarian, and Don was the farm manager. I spent the summer of 1969 in Iowa City with…
Don Laughlin, Draft Resister
I spent two years–May 1944 to August 1946–in California Quaker CPS camps under the Forest Service. During that time I made two trips to Europe, under the United Nations Relief Administration. One trip took cattle to Danzig and the other horses to Trieste. During this time I accepted a CO classification under the draft. I…
Pass It On
by Alberta Kisling Several in our creative writing group are writing life histories for their families. A number of people here at the Village have already written books. Have you considered how you will pass on your family history? There are many ways to do this and you don’t have to be a gifted writer…
Blogging
by Jeff Kisling A little over a year ago I began writing on a blog https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/ That was mainly in response to complaints that I was sending too much email, and I was. Around this same time I was introduced (via email) to Derek Glass, whose business is Glass Web Projects. At that time he was…
Resurrection
by Alberta Kisling Out of the crumbles of dust and termites come memories of children’s voices at play or reciting, first day school and committee meetings. We Quakers reflect on the old school house that is gone. But look! Rising from the ruins of the past; a new building! Many windows for quiet gazing across…
Family Camping
by Alberta Kisling The highlight of our summers were camping trips. As we endured the hot, dry summers and every activity resulting in sweat running down our flushed faces and our energy draining as we pulled those icky, tough weeds or pushed and shoved the mower through heavy grass, we could hardly wait to…
Ripple Effect of Stories
by Jeff Kisling A narrated version of this is available here: https://mix.office.com/watch/14odrzbp5wlle
Some Remarkable Quaker Women
by Alberta Kisling Deborah Standing While I didn’t know my Great Grandmother, many stories have been passed along. To leave her home in civilized England and travel with her husband and five sons to a strange, new pioneer land surely took enormous courage! There was no electricity, no running water, mud roads—a very primitive life. …
Finding My Way Home
by Jenny Lumsden Everyone comes to faith in his or her own time and their own way. For some they are born into it and it always feels like home, for others they grow up with one way being dictated to them but it always feels “off” and so they go in search of other…
An Established Travel Plan Suddenly Re-Routed
by Eldon Morey The year was 1972. June was begun and Eldon’s classes at the University of South Dakota that spring had concluded. The Moreys and their two small children were en route on Highway 385 from north of Hot Springs, South Dakota headed to Rapid City. It was a long overdue vacation following two…
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