This slide caught my attention because handwritten notes on the original identify the place as "Mom Chester's farm." And I have been told by a native Ainsworthite that Ruth Chester (George's wife) used to drive the tractor herself to plow the fields on their farm, while George was working his day job.
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Wouldn't it be a stroke of luck if I just happened to stumble across a picture of Ruth Chester this way? However, I don't think that happened. Aside from sheer improbability, the notes on the original say "fall 1958." In 1958 Ruth Chester was about 61 years old; the woman in this picture looks younger.
But we can pretend, can't we?
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