Ken Steinhoff, Cape Girardeau Central High School Class of 1965, spent half a century in the ink-slinging business for papers in Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida.
He retired in 2008 and has been spending time scanning hundreds of thousands of images because “photos once taken as news have grown enough whiskers that they’ve become history.”
Please comment on the articles when you see he may have left out a bit of history, forgotten a name or when your memory of a circumstance conflicts with his.
(His mother said her stories improved after all the folks who could contradict died off.)
Your information helps to make this a wonderful archive and may end up in book form.
© Ken Steinhoff – All Rights Reserved
I can’t help but be drawn to the World War I private standing vigil on the county courthouse lawn in Jackson. Click on the photo to make it larger.
Years of weathering have changed the face of the World War I statue.
http://www.semissourian.com/blogs/flynch/entry/41085/
I love this statue! My grandfather, Oscar “Jack” Clifton served in World War I and was wounded in the Argonne Forest in France in 1918.
I have 2 very large pictures of both my great uncles (brothers) who served during WWI in their army uniforms, circa 1917. One of those uncles, great uncle Fred, was killed in France in 1917 by mustard gas. I have his death certificate signed by Woodrow Wilson framed and hanging on my wall. It is definitely a piece of artwork with an intricate drawing of a lady in a flowing robe holding a torch. My other great uncle John, who survived the war, lived to be 89 years old (died in 1981) but would never talk about the war.
Tim Luckett, I just finished the first of Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy that told stories of WWI I had never heard. A good read. The title is A Fall of Giants. You might enjoy it.
Thank you Margi.