Homestead Happenings

December 2012 -- December 20 was Christmas Eve at the "Old Dobson Place," Gilbert, Idaho. The setting sun behind the house cas...

. . . I made a doll outfit for the rag doll Ethel is making Shirley Jean. We had great fun doing it and trying it onto Ethel’s old big ...

5:30 a.m. “Ethel and Shirley Jean will be here today,” thought Ina excitedly as she came awake. Being a phlegmatic sort, Ina kept her...

December 1936 The only modern convenience in Ina’s home was the handsome wooden telephone on the wall in the dining room – the kind...

. . . the way you four Dobsons looked when we presented our trees was pay in plenty. Ida Jane Patchen, 1922 December 1936 Tog...