The Mussmann journey started just before the American Civil War. The gallery exhibit has photographs of the two original farm places built by Harold's great-grand parents plus other images from Harold's life and times. Linda's father's parents left Hanover, Germany and traveled by ship to the new world. They continued their farming skills, all bought farms, and built houses and buildings and harvested the land with the labor of their hands. Linda's father was the 4th child out of 6 born to Herman and Helena Mussmann. He died last year just 26 days short of his 99th birthday.

Linda has saved many photos and his comments about his life written by his own hand. This exhibit is in remembrance of his life and a memorial to his life and his times during which he witnessed several wars, the depression of 1929 (the year he married), a tornado in 1948 that blew the entire farm away, the landing of the man on the moon, and his farm life going from horses to tractors. He wrote: "Before 1910 we drove horses on a buggy. In the winter we used a bob sled. We would get cold and would heat bricks and put them at our feet. The men all wore heavy fur coats made of horse hide, since they would stand up and drive. Many times we would go through the fields since the roads always drifted full of snow. The only way the roads were opened [was that] the neighborhood men would get together with shovels and open the roads. After 1910 the automobiles started to come in the country."

Join us for a look at an extraordinary life. Free to the public.