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Article: Adventures of a Plains Anthropologist-Historian
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- Plains Anthropologist
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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My twin brother and I were born in August 1924 at a small prairie county seat town in eastern South Dakota. Our father and grandfather built bridges, so we saw men driving pilings with a 40-foot pile driver and a 1,600-pound steel hammer and pouring concrete to make bridges. In the fall this equi
pment and a few bunk wagons were stored at the rear of our property, and we played in and around them with our close friends. The community was white western European, Protestant, and Republican in politics. Much of our family social life centered in the Congregational Church, the Masonic Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star, and the American Legion and Auxiliary. In summers with many relatives nearby, ...