The Story In The PictureThe Picture In the Story An old photograph hung on the wall of the Moloski home in Kansas for decades, its origins steeped in family history. The image was of Pulaskifield; of Sts. Peter & Paul Church, the parsonage across the street and the nunnery next-door, taken from the hillside […]
Category: Land and Buildings
Fred Gasser’s 1904 St. Mary’s School Workbook
Fred Gasser’s Spring 1904 Workbook Also see Fred’s post card from home. Acquired online, this workbook provides a momentary slice in the life of Frederick Joseph Gasser, born 1891. At the age of 12, he writes of his home, his family, Father Thomas, disease and “Intertainment”. His dictation and letter writing speak of the day […]
Earth, Wind and Fire
Threatened by glaciers, hidden by hills and blessed with water, Pulaskifield exists in a unique location. Why is internet and cellular connectivity so hard? Hills. Why is it so tough to grow a crop? Sea sediments. What comes in abundance? Water. We live in a post-Mississippian region. Roughly 330 million years ago, during the Paleozoic […]
Sts. Peter and Paul Cemetery
A future project for the Society will be to create a linked interface to provide life details for those interred in the cemetery, providing a digital voice to those who can no longer speak for themselves.
