EDITOR'S NOTE Dave Eliason:  About 30 years ago I took an interest in local history.  With the advent of the internet it was made relatively easy to explore various historic topics. 

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Since my memory was not always functional I learned how to create my own website to save the things I found.  This was in the early days and many of my acquaintances assured me that "this whole internet thing is just a passing fad and you're wasting your time".   Seems they were wrong.

 

This entire website is the result of saving various things I have found over many years and putting them on the  relevant pages I have created here.  Sometime in the early 2000's the Bartlett Historic Society asked me if I could help create their website.  I replied that it was already half done...and here I am in 2025 and still not finished, but since I haven't been fired, all must be OK.