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Memory LanePosted Wednesday, June 3, 2009, at 11:38 AM
This is my first attempt in writing a blog so forgive my errors. I have been writing articles since 1952 mainly about the Iowa Great Lakes. This area has a wealth of history and I am still amazed finding stories after writing over 800. Each cottage has a history as does each beach and community not to mention people. There have been writers who lived in this county who did a remarkable job and left us a great heritage such as R.A. Smith-"History of Dickinson County" ( History prior to 1900) Hattie P Elston "White Man Follow After"( 1920 and 30s) and Dr. Smith in his articles in the Okoboji Protective Association to 1927 and of course the old Copies of the Spirit Lake Beacon and the Milford Mail. The wealth of information that individuals have about our area is never ending. I am always on the lookout for photos and stories so please contact me so we can get them down in print.
One of my ever working project is to locate and photo the unique rock pillars, fences and walls constructed in the lakes area. It is unique to this area. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
Aubrey LaFoy is a Dickinson County historian. He is a life-long resident of the Lakes area. Aubrey is a World War II veteran of China, Burma and India and board member of the Okoboji Protective Association and the Dickinson County Historical Museum. He has written four books and has a back-log of about 800 articles about the Lakes region.
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60 years ago I graduated from Iowa State Teachers College (Now University of Northern Iowa) at Cedar Falls, Iowa. We stopped to look the campus over on our way back from St. Louis but due to some construction of new roads could not really get to see the campus. When we were there in 1946 to 1949 the enrollment was 3,000 and today probably 15,000. It has grown but we did see several buildings that were there when we were students.
Over the weekend my wife, Connie, and I drove to St. Louis to wtach our grandson, Nick LaFoy, graduate from HS. There were 500 in his graduating class and Nick did receive some high honors. We stayed with our son, Carl LaFoy, in an apartment conplex (300) directly across grom the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. It is a huge granite walls and two massive towers. We visited it and the interior ceilings are mosaics with over 41,500,000 pieces of tesserae in more thn 8,000 shades of color. I was impressed with the amount of labor it must have taken to construct.
Driving to St. Louis from the lakes area is an undertaking. We drove to Fort Dodge to Hiway 20 and then had 4 lane roads clear to St. Louis but it still took about 10 hours.
We are happy to return to the Iowa Great Lakes and home.
I have been working with Pam Jordon to try and define and tell about the many wonderful photos that will and are on the walls in the new Dickinson County Court House. One photo I did some research and it was the Milford American Legion baseball team of about 1927 or 1928. Jerry Clark of Clark Museum helped indentify some of the players. I believe my father, Ray LaFoy, was either a coach or was Commander of the Americna Legion at that time. If you have photos of family in your possession please write on the back who and where they are.