Projections of Life: Memories of a Midwestern childhood and the stories only pictures can tell.

The article focuses on a book "Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Herself" by Martha "Calamity" Jane Cannary which looked up old property maps in the local history room of the public library, found the graves of great-grandparents in the huge town cemetery. It mentions his grandmother had to abandon her plan of attending the University of Missouri. It also mentions Mary Helen had kept copies of her father's newspaper articles in boxes in the basement.