In March of 1932, when Gracie was almost 5 years old, her parents piled her and her 3 siblings (2 older, 1 younger) into a car and drove from Westbrook, a very small town in southwestern Minnesota across the country to Bend, OR. Her father, who had been pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Westbrook…
Westbrook
The Ruts are Still Visible
Even though I had come looking for them, I was still surprised at the sight — wagon wheel ruts and the footprints of a child in the weathered sidewalk of a small town on the Minnesota prairie. I had seen them before, back in the 1960’s, but did not expect that they would still be visible…