Homestead Happenings

“It’s a terrible system we’re getting to have in our country,” said my late sister Harriet. I think of this so often these days. “Your ide...

  My grandparents, Charlie and Nina Portfors, were married October 31, 1906, at the home of her parents, Thomas and Alice Mary Sanders, ne...

  I like to make the most of “Summerween,” the late summer / autumn season that culminates in Halloween when days grow shorter, mornings gro...

Shadows at eventide We’ve been home from our 1926 trip to Yellowstone National Park for more than two weeks. Having toured on a shoestring, ...

August 11, 1926 -- Wednesday Just like Charlie of the M.T.A. song, I wonder if the family will ever return. I also sing “the tale of the c...

  August 10, Missoula, MT In her final postcard, Ina writes: We didn’t leave Anaconda until 12:30 P.M. Ate our lunch there and drove 117 m...

[Ina writes another postcard to her daughters, Myrtle and Ethel, at the farmhouse. On a practical level, it's silly to keep writing thes...