Tag: Nebraska farming

Family history can help fiction writing!

Family history can help fiction writing!

For years, well, decades, I’ve enjoyed genealogy, and so has my aunt, my dad’s father. She’s been the keeper of most of their parents’ photographs and has researched–the old-fashioned way, by visiting cemeteries and county clerk offices–a lot of the Wanrow family history. In preparing for an upcoming visit with her, I reviewed sets of […]

A Retro Happy Father’s Day

A Retro Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day to my dad, who is up in the grain bin of a Gleaner combine leveling the grain. His dad, my grandfather Herb Wanrow, is standing below. These are some of the later–1940s–self-propelled farm machines my grandfather sold, but I’ve been digging through our family history and talking to my dad about their […]

Posted June 21, 2015 by Laurel Wanrow in Writing / 2 Comments