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Northshire Heritage (Stories from the Great War) by JP Robinson

The Northshire Heritage Trilogy

In the Shadow of Your Wings

“… Robinson’s eclectic array of characters and high-stakes scenarios make for an immersive beginning to a series that will appeal to fans of war dramas.”—Publisher’s Weekly

A past she can’t escape. A future he wants to make his own. A war that comes between them. She’s a spy in love with the enemy. Leila Durand, an elite German spy charged with infiltrating the home of British icon Thomas Steele, hopes to use the war to move beyond the pain of her shattered past. But everything changes when she falls in love with Thomas’s son, Malcolm. Is there a way to reconcile her love for Germany and her love for the enemy?       

He’s a son who wants to break free. Malcolm, wealthy heir to Northshire Estate, wants nothing more than to be free of his father’s rules. When Thomas becomes too judgmental, Malcolm makes a life-changing choice.In the Shadow of Your Wings presents inescapable truth that resonates across the past century. Then as now, the struggle for faith is real. Then as now, there is a refuge for all who come beneath the shadow of God’s wings.

In the Midst of the Flames

“…dramatic and intricately plotted…”—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY

Divided by a lie. Haunted by the past. Bonded by their love. As the fires of the Great War rage across the European continent, the Steele family is caught in the midst of the inferno.
Estranged from his wife Malcolm wonders if he can ever find forgiveness for his betrayal as he begins the long journey home. Leila desperately searches for a way to escape her past life as a spy—and the German agent who has been sent to kill her—as she struggles to prove her innocence.

Determined to save his family, Thomas risks everything in a high-stakes political gamble, bringing Britain to the brink of obliteration, as spymaster Robert Hughes plots his downfall.
Will everything be reduced to ashes? Or does God still walk with those who, through faith, step out into the midst of the flames?

A Christian author with a penchant for historical thrillers, JP Robinson places an unforgettable story against the backdrop of World War 1. In the Midst of the Flames is the unforgettable second installment of the Northshire Heritage trilogy. B“This should be a hit with fans of inspirational historicals.”—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY

In the Dead of the Night

Darkness gathers in the final days of the Great War as the Germans plot to unleash a weapon that will plunge the Allied world into obscurity. For the Steele family, the stakes have never been higher. Leila is forced back into the shadows when the leader of a German spy ring kidnaps her child, jeopardizing Europe’s fragile bid for peace. Meanwhile, Malcolm fights to keep Northshire Estate as his father stands trial for treason against the British empire.  Confronted with overwhelming circumstances from their past, the Steeles must rely on their grit and faith to conquer the night. But will it be enough?

The Author

JP Robinson is the President of Lancaster Christian Writers Association, minister, and educator. He has over 15 years experience in education and marketing. JP’s novels have garnered praise by industry leaders such as Publisher’s Weekly.

Note from the author: I’m a French and Social Studies teacher who loves God and loves telling a good story. I see writing as a chance to teach powerful lessons in an entertaining and memorable way. When I’m not glued to my computer drafting stories, I’m normally mentoring other authors, helping out with my church, and spending time with my amazing wife and kids.

My Thoughts

These are Christian historical thrillers, with fascinating back-stories. If you like stories set during the First World War, thrillers backed by real history, backed by powerful lessons, you’ll enjoy this compelling trilogy.

These historical novels, set during the Great War, include a rich cast of characters, treacherous women spies, and assassination plots. There’s an infant held hostage in the final book, a gripping tension-filled trial, and even a castle at stake.

Especially interesting are notes about the the author’s for this excellent series, and revelation of which characters are historical and which are based on real people.

Check out JP Robinson’s website. The Lancaster Christian Writers Conference is this weekend!

Recently, JP has experienced some racism and vandalism. His gracious response is on his Facebook page.

A Child’s Rocking Chair, Through the Decades

Probably for Christmas one year in the 1940s, Leora Wilson gave little rocking chairs to each of her six grandchildren.

Gloria and I are entertaining our dolls, who are enjoying the little rockers. I’m pointing to where we live on the globe, which I still have.

I suppose this one, and my sister’s, were eventually relegated to a store room, as our old farmhouse didn’t have an attic. Both of us were 4-H members, in the Penn Township girls’ club called the Penn Gwens. We needed projects to complete, to record in our record books and for the Madison County Fair.

The little rocking chair became a project of painting and reupholstering it.

I noted that the name of the paint was Chiffon, and that I’d braided the rug, which was another project.

The fabric swatch gives you an idea of how much colored photos of that era have faded.

I’m sure Marilyn had more fun that it looks! Her rug was black, rose, and off white, made of old clothing. Mine was a light blue, made from a torn-apart electric blanket that no longer worked. Marilyn’s father, Bob Lawson, taught us the art of rug braiding.

Marilyn Lawson and I did a demonstration about making braided rugs from discarded clothing and blankets.

Meanwhile, I’d learned to do needlepoint. When son Dan was small, in the late 1970s, I refinished the chair. This time I designed and needlepointed upholstery for the seat.

Now the little rocking chair belongs to granddaughter Kate in the Twin Cities! She’s so busy, I don’t think she sit on it. Or anything else.

F/O Claiborne Junior Wilson

This was written for the Stories Behind the Stars website, which plans to remember every WWII fallen. They provided training and a certain format, including footnotes for research. They even offered to link them to Leora’s Letters: The Story of Love and Loss for An Iowa Family During World War II, but in order to do that I’d need to join something else.

By then, I was finishing up the manuscript for Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression and was exasperated by trying to jump through all their hoops and gave up.

 

F/O Claiborne Junior Wilson

Killed in a Training Accident near Yorktown, TX

F/O Claiborne Junior Wilson – was born on July, 1925, near Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa. His father, Claiborne Daniel Wilson, and mother, Leora Frances Goff Wilson, were born and raised in Guthrie County, Iowa. His father was a farmer and raiser of championship Duroc Jersey hogs. Junior Wilson had two older brothers, who served in the US Navy during the Great Depression and WWII, and two older brothers, who were pilots lost during the war. He also had two sisters.

Junior Wilson grew up during the Great Depression in and around Dexter, Iowa, 

graduated from Washington Township High School in 1942. He farmed with his father and brothers, tenant farmers near Minburn, Iowa, when the war broke out. Junior Wilson enlisted in the US Army Air Force September 1943.

Basic Training was at Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX in late 1943. College Detachment was at Stilwater, OK, until March 1944. Preflight was at San Antonio, TX, until June 1944. Primary Cadet Training was at Curtis Field, Brady, TX until September 1944. Basic Training was at Majors Field, Greenville, TX, also Waco, TX, at the end of 1944. Advanced at Aloe AFB, Victoria, TX, graduating in the Class of 45-A. Transition Training was in P-40s at Foster and Aloe Fields, Victoria, TX. 

F/0 Wilson was the pilot of a P-40 when the engine threw a rod and exploded in formation training, August 9, 1945, near Yorktown, TX, killing Junior, age 20. 

When the telegram arrived about his death, his parents expected confirmation about one of their two sons still listed as Missing in Action. 

Five Wilson brothers served in the war. Only two came home. Junior Wilson is one of the three young pilots who lost their lives during the war. He is buried at Violet Hill Cemetery in Perry, Iowa. 

All five Wilson brothers are remembered on the Dallas County Freedom Rock at Minburn, Iowa. 

Sources: 

Joy Neal Kidney has copies of Claiborne Junior Wilson’s Accident File,  letters sent home, telegrams sent to his parents, newspaper clippings.  Leora’s Letters: The Story of Love and Loss for One Iowa Family During World War II Stories about C. Junior Wilson Findagrave  

Family History Reveals Conditions of Great Depression by Dennis L. Peterson

FAMILY HISTORY REVEALS CONDITIONS OF GREAT DEPRESSIONPosted on April 16, 2021 by dlpedit

Reading someone else’s family history, especially when you are not remotely acquainted with that family and its various members, can be daunting. Downright confusing, in fact.

So it was with not a little trepidation that I agreed to read and review a pre-publication copy of Joy Neal Kidney’s latest book Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression.

I was, however, pleasantly surprised by my experience. For the first several chapters, I was, indeed, a little confused as I tried to remember the various members of the large family that Kidney describes in the book. But I was soon able to see the larger picture as all the pieces began to come together and I became acquainted with each member she mentioned.

The Wilson family comprised the parents, Clabe and Leora Wilson, and their seven children, all but one of whose names began with the letter D (which added to my initial confusion!). From youngest to oldest, they were Junior, Danny, Darlene and Dale (twins), Doris, Donald, and Delbert. The book includes numerous photos of the family members help one quickly become familiar with them. Initial confusion quickly turns to insatiable curiosity about what happens to each of them, and I found myself not wanting to stop reading.

The names, faces, places, situations, and events of other families during the Depression might have been different, but the conditions of the time would have been similar for millions of average families across the nation during the trying years of the Great Depression. The scarcity of money, the constant struggle to feed the family, sickness and death, obstacles to advancement, numerous and varied jobs to make ends meet, and each family member’s mutual efforts to keep the family together are constant themes throughout the book. Yet, in spite of the hardships of the times, people still had fun, and the Wilson family was no exception. They played ball. They fixed up old cars. They celebrated Christmas and other holidays, albeit in limited ways. They sledded, exulting in their new sled. They went to school and learned. They lived, loved, and learned.

Kidney’s book, with short chapters, is fast paced. The narrative is filled with examples of folkways, customs, and ways of doing things that vividly reveal the time period. That lifestyle will be readily recognized by the older readers and will provide valuable insights of the earlier generation for younger readers.

Leora’s Dexter Stories is Kidney’s second book, her first being Leora’s Letters: The Story of Love and Loss for an Iowa Family during World War II. In the earlier work, she tells the tragic story of how the Wilson family had five sons who served overseas during the war. Only two of the brothers returned.

Kidney describes herself on her Amazon author page as “the keeper of family stories, letters, pictures, research, combat records, casualty reports, and terrible telegrams.” She is “active on several history and military Facebook pages,” has written “two genealogies, as well as dozens of essays in newspapers and magazines,” and is a popular guest on the Our American Stories radio broadcast. The Iowa Women’s Archives of the University of Iowa include a collection of her essays.

If you’re interested in the events of the Depression and World War II and how those greater narratives affected everyday life for everyday people, these Kidney’s books are for you. With so many eyewitnesses of these two historic periods, it’s critical that such accounts be preserved and passed on to subsequent generations. Both books will be available on Amazon.

This was a nice surprise the morning I gave a talk at Earlham about these stories!

Dennis is the author of several books, including the delightful memoir, Look Unto the Hills: Growing Up in Rural East Tennessee.

National Poetry Month: Four More Favorites

I’ve also enjoyed these slim volumes of accessible verse:

Elements

Sorted by water, air, earth, and fire these nearly forty poems by Christopher Yokel are compelling in their nuance and images. I especially liked “Lux in Tenebris,” “Orion’s Repose,” “Gray and Green,” and “E Pluribus Me.”

The recurring phrase in “And It Was Night” is powerful in its chant.

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Soul Sketches

With some revised, some new, this new edition by Tim Ritter covers memories from childhood to the present. It’s an eclectic gathering of reflections and passions.

From the amusing “Candelabras and Scarlet Tights” to lying in the dirt with his son as Civil War reenactors for a film in “State Blood and French Fries,” it’s a fascinating collection. My favorite is the surprising and transcendent “Joseph’s Prayer.” A laudable collection.

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Prescriptions from the Rhyme Doctor

Allen Rizzi is a writer with over 55 years professional experience including non-fiction, biography, music, poetry and corporate analytic writing. He has additional expertise as a photographer, historical researcher and genealogist. Specialties: Historical non-fiction, nostalgia, public profiles, biographies, and documentary writing in English, Italian, and German. With skills in music composition and lyrics, Allen Rizzi has composed more than 200 songs since 1974.

Prescriptions from the Rhyme Doctor is divided into “The Young Man–Years of Hope” and “The Old Man–Years of Judgment.” It covers a span of about fifty years and certainly changes in style and focus. I especially enjoyed “I Remember Nonna” and “Genealogy,” both written in the author’s later years.

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Red Stilts

Ted Kooser is winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Delights and Shadows, and also served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States. He is the author of over twenty books, including five for children, he was born in Ames, Iowa, and lives in a small town in Nebraska.

There’s a reason this poet is much loved. His poetry is so full of compelling vignettes of the ordinary, urging the mesmerized reader to pause and become a noticer of details as well. I’d list my favorite, but there are at least ten of them. I just love this man’s compelling work.

My fibromyalgia symptoms got so miserable I thought I’d never be able to write again. I gave away all of my poetry books, including Kooser’s Delights and Shadows and The Poetry Home Repair Manual. I since have gratefully acquired new copies of both.

Keeping the Dexter Town Pump Oiled: a WPA Job During the 1930s

During the 1930s, the federal government enacted New Deal legislation to create jobs for the thousands who had lost theirs and couldn’t find work at all.

One WPA job in Dexter kept the town pump oiled a few hours each week.

In June of 1934, Clabe Wilson began the part-time government job which lasted nearly a year. A brick hut housed the machinery on the southwest corner of town, out toward the cemetery. Clabe was allowed to work sixteen hours a week. 

The old Dexter pumphouse, photo probably taken in the early 1990s

He still worked there in during that winter. It was desolate and cold inside the little brick pumphouse, with nothing to do but keep the pump oiled. Clabe wore long johns all winter, and bundled up for the half-day shift with everything warm he could find. 

I’ve never been able to learn whether this was an essential job, or a make-work one.

The town pump made its way into family letters to the Wilsons’ sons who’d joined the navy as a result of not having jobs. And it’s part of the history of Dexter, Iowa, during the scarcity years of the Great Depression.

Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression is due out later this spring. There aren’t photos of the pumphouse in the book, since they’re hard to see very well.

The old pumphouse was in the green triangle area in the upper left of this map.

If you take the street north from the triangle, it will take you across the Rock Island tracks and to Drew’s Chocolates on the highway. Keep going north and you’ll see the marker for the 1948 National Plowing Match, where an estimated 100,000 sweltering souls came to hear President Truman speak.

Farther north are markers for Dexfield Park and for the Bonnie and Clyde shootout. Both of these have chapters in Leora’s Dexter Stories. Drew’s Chocolates also makes a cameo appearance.

Join Me Thursday in Person or Via Facebook: Earlham’s Senior Speaker Series

The Earlham Senior Speaker Series invited me back! The talk about Leora’s Depression Era stories was to be a year ago, but a virus canceled in-person meetings. I promise this won’t be a depressing presentation.

You may enter on the east and climb a flight of stairs, or from the north to use the elevator. It’s their Senior Series, but they won’t check your ID to see if you’re old enough.

It will be streamed (10 a.m. Central Daylight Time) on the Bricker-Price Block Facebook page. Last week’s was their first time, so was a little awkward and the sound was echo-y, but should be better Friday. It’ll be fun anyway!

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Located in Madison County, Iowa, in the small town of Earlham, the Bricker-Price Block (consisting of C.D. Bricker Building, 115 S. Chestnut Ave. on the south, and W. Price Building, 105 S. Chestnut Ave. on the north) occupies the prominent southwest corner at the intersection of First Street and Chestnut Avenue in the Earlham central business district.

Built in 1900 to house the C.D. Bricker grocery and general store business and leased commercial space in the W.P. Price Building, with second-floor offices above each, the Bricker-Price Block also includes a 1919 one-story rear warehouse addition to the Bricker Building.

These two adjoining but separately owned buildings were built at the same time by the same builder with a unified façade and matching cast-iron storefronts, and thus the two buildings are jointly known historically as the Bricker-Price Block.

 

2nd Lt. Daniel S. Wilson

This was written for the Stories Behind the Stars website, which plans to remember every WWII fallen. They provided training and a certain format, including footnotes for research. They even offered to link them to Leora’s Letters: The Story of Love and Loss for An Iowa Family During World War II, but in order to do that I’d need to join something else.

By then, I was finishing up the manuscript for Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression and was exasperated by trying to jump through all their hoops and gave up.

2nd Lt. Daniel Sheridan Wilson 

KIA on a Mission, Schwanberg, Austria

2nd Lt. Daniel S Wilson was born on May 21, 1923, in Stuart, Guthrie County, Iowa. His father, Claiborne Daniel Wilson, and mother, Leora Frances Goff Wilson, were born and raised in Guthrie County. His father was a farmer and raiser of championship Duroc Jersey hogs. Dan had two older brothers who served in the US Navy during the Great Depression and WWII, and two other brothers, who were lost during the war. He also had two sisters.

Dan Wilson grew up during the Great Depression in and around Dexter, Iowa. He graduated from Washington Township High School in 1941, valedictorian of his class. Dan farmed with his father and brothers, tenant farmers near Minburn, Iowa, when the war broke out. He enlisted in the US Army Air Force in early 1943.

Basic Training was at Jefferson Barracks, MO in February 1943. He was sent to College Detachment in Cedar Falls, Iowa, in March and April 1943, then Preflight at Santa Ana, CA from May to August, 1943. Primary Cadet Training was at Ryan Field, Tucson, AZ. Basic Training was at Marana, AZ, at the end of 1943. Advanced at Williams Field, Chandler, AZ, graduating in the Class of 44-C. Transition was at Victorville and Salinas, CA, with Tactical Training in the P-38 at Santa Rosa and Hamilton Field, CA. 

2nd Lt. Wilson was sent via Liberty Ship to Italy, where he was based at the 15th Air Force Fields in the Triolo area, with the 14th Fighter Group, 37th Fighter Group.

On February 19, 1945, his P-38 was lost after an escort mission to Vienna, then strafing in the Graz area. He was lost near Schwanberg, Austria. Eye witnesses said it was hard to spot a silver plane in a snow-covered area. Lt. Daniel S. Wilson was listed as MIA from that date until January of 1946. By then the military had received information from captured German records through a British Graves Registration team, turned over to an American Graves Registration team who followed up in November 1945. His parents were notified in January 1946. His remains were removed from Austria in August 1946 to the temporary Lorraine American Cemetery at St. Avold, France. 

A Purple Heart and an Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster were sent to Dan Wilson’s parents.

Dan Wilson was survived by his parents, two brothers and two sisters. His father died in October 1946 of a stroke and a broken heart. 

Later his widowed mother made the decision for permanent overseas burial. He is buried in the Lorraine American Cemetery, St. Avold, France. 

The five Wilson brothers served in the war. Only two came home. Dan Wilson is one of the three young pilots who lost their lives during the war. His parents had a cenotaph added to the family burial plot at Violet Hill Cemetery in Perry, Iowa for their sons, Dale and Daniel .

The brothers are remembered on the Dallas County Freedom Rock at Minburn, Iowa. 

Sources: 

Joy Neal Kidney has copies of Lt. Daniel Wilson’s 293 (Casualty) File, Missions Reports, Pilot’s Log Book, letters sent home, telegrams sent to his parents, newspaper clippings.  Leora’s Letters: The Story of Love and Loss for One Iowa Family During World War II ADM Alumni Association Honored Military   Stories about Dan Wilson.  Lorraine American Cemetery  https://api.abmc.gov/decedent-search/wilson%3Ddaniel-2 History: Schwanberg 700 Jahre Markt, page 41

April is National Poetry Month: Four Favorite Poetry Books

To celebrate National Poetry Month, I’m actually going to attempt the challenge to write a poem each day.

Here are some recent favorite collections. You can probably tell that I like accessible poetry.

Kin Types

The stories of ancestors help keep them alive. Luanne Castle does that regularly on her blog called “The Family Kalamazoo,” but in this slim volume of 19 poems and flash prose, she captures individuals with a vignette of well-chosen details that give you goosebumps, even a lump in your throat. They are poignant, sharing some harsh scenes as well as how one name is so ubiquitous in her ancestry.

I especially enjoyed the one about family resemblances in old photographs, and noting the names, dates, and places as her forebears crossed the ocean from The Netherlands and Germany and ended up in Michigan. I also enjoyed finding pictures of some of these on her genealogy blog. This delightful chapbook, Kin Types, helps keep alive individuals largely forgotten otherwise.

Luanne Castle’s latest book of poetry is called Doll God.

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Rumble & Flash

Chad Allen Elliott’s path to poetry began with a love of music. He has performed original songs across the U.S. for over 20-years, winning several awards for composition including the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Award in 2009. Early in his career, he learned some verses do not need musical embellishment. They stand alone in their own cadence. Since that time, this Iowan has penned nearly 2,000 songs and released 22 albums.

In Rumble & Flash, Chad shares poems composed during his time on the road. They are steeped in archetypal themes like fatherhood, love, nature, and spirituality.

Rumble & Flash is full of wisdom from perspective. I especially enjoyed “The Rough Aesthetic of Men,” “One Harmful Thing,” “Refining Years,” and “Bur Oak.”

Chad Elliott’s artwork is also absolutely captivating.

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Dust and Diamond: Poems of Faith and Beyond

Donn Taylor led an Infantry rifle platoon in the Korean War, served with Army aviation in Vietnam, and worked with air reconnaissance in Europe and Asia. Afterwards, he completed a PhD at The University of Texas and taught English literature at two liberal arts colleges. Now retired from college teaching, he writes suspense and mystery fiction as well as literary poetry designed for the ordinary reader. He lives in the woods near Houston, TX, where he continues to write fiction, poetry, and essays on ethics and U.S. foreign policy.

These poems in Dust and Diamond are wide-ranging, from profound to tongue-in-cheek, all delightful. I especially enjoyed the beautiful “Notation,” the gritty “Panhandle Dust Storm,” “Epigram: 1869,” the miracle of “Ear,” the profound “Terminal Conditions,” and the laugh-out-loud “Fashion Models.”

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Horse Lawyer and Other Poems

Greg Seeley was raised on a farm north of Afton, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a major in history and received his Master’s Degree from the University of Iowa. Greg is a retired certified public accountant and lives in Overland Park, Kansas with his wife Carolyn, a retired math teacher.

These are delightful and accessible vignettes. What a compelling way to preserve and share the soul of three generations of farm families, through the author’s fatherline in free verse. Not only that, but they lived on the same nook of Iowa soil over a span of 125 years. I’m encouraged to try something similar with my own motherline.

The Horse Lawyer and Other Poems is divided into the three generations and accompanied by winsome photos. I especially enjoyed the poems called “His Rocker,” “Fraternity of the Soil,” and the two about aging–“Two Shall Be As One” and “It’s Getting Gray.”

Greg Seeley also wrote Tractor Bones and Rusted Trucks: Tales and Recollections of a Heartland Baby Boomer, which is a collection of poetry and short stories.

Earlham Bricker-Price Senior Series–April 2021

They’ve asked me to speak on the 16th!

Senior Series, April 2021
10:00 Friday mornings, Bricker-Price Block, Earlham, Iowa

April 9 – Darcy Maulsby, Iowa’s Story Teller, and her latest book, Madison County, part of the Images of America Series. While Hollywood made the bridges famous, there are many more stories for Darcy to share.

April 16 – Joy Neal Kidney, Earlham grad, and her upcoming book, Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression. It’s the prequel to her WWII book, Leora’s Letters. All seven Wilson children grew up in Dexter during the Depression. Some stories are heart-rending, some are funny, and so many episodes are eye-opening. She will also share back-stories.

April 23 – Linda Smith, who is on the Board of the Madison County Historical Society, will give a program about George Washington Carver. Carver was a famous scientist, humanitarian, and artist, but before he ever went to college, he lived and worked in a Winterset hotel.  Linda Smith will tell his inspiring story.

April 30 – Brian Downes, Executive Director of Winterset’s John Wayne Birthplace and Museum, will present “A Day With the Duke.” Last year he gave a tour of the museum for the Senior Series via video. Mr. Downes tell stories and connections with the Wayne family that are fascinating.  (John Wayne’s roles in military films are featured on the Madison County Freedom Rock.)

Located in Madison County, Iowa, in the small town of Earlham, the Bricker-Price Block (consisting of C.D. Bricker Building, 115 S. Chestnut Ave. on the south, and W. Price Building, 105 S. Chestnut Ave. on the north) occupies the prominent southwest corner at the intersection of First Street and Chestnut Avenue in the Earlham central business district.

Built in 1900 to house the C.D. Bricker grocery and general store business and leased commercial space in the W.P. Price Building, with second-floor offices above each, the Bricker-Price Block also includes a 1919 one-story rear warehouse addition to the Bricker Building.

These two adjoining but separately owned buildings were built at the same time by the same builder with a unified façade and matching cast-iron storefronts, and thus the two buildings are jointly known historically as the Bricker-Price Block.

You may enter on the east and climb a flight of stairs, or from the north to use the elevator. It’s their Senior Series, but they won’t check your ID to see if you’re old enough.