Stepping down

Grand Island

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September 30th 2008
We had to go into Grand Island to go to the Post Office and to the bank. We like the neat and tidy farms. Their yards all around the barns and outbuildings are clean and there's no junk piled up anywhere, no rusty old tractors, no piles of barbed wire, nothing. It must be their German heritage. They had large lawns. It looked like they just mowed whatever was growing and, voila, a lush, gree ... read more

North America » United States » Nebraska » Grand Island

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more