Interview with James Blankespoor (1)

MHH:  It is November 28, 2009.  I’m at the residence of Mr. James Blankespoor in Lansing, Illinois.  We are going to hear today the story of Mr. Blankespoor’s childhood and youth up until the end of the 1940s. MHH:  Mr. Blankespoor, where and when were you born? JB:  1917. MHH:  And where did you come into the world? JB:  It was on the farm north of Rock Valley, about six miles north.  My dad had bought that farm.  That farm was bought quite a while before I was born, but anyway, that’s...