Gift of the Past

Poems and Stories written by my Grandparents, Webster and Maggie Baker during the 1880s brings that part of History to life.

Maggie was 18 and Webster 23 when Websters dad moved his family to Kansas to Homestead. Webster had to leave his girl friend back in Indiana. That is the heart ache behind the poem Separation. How he came back and married his formal sweetheart is part of the story.

My dad, Che...