Dedication

Above: Butch and Luella Hackenberg. Circa 2005

This “glimpse of the past” through a collection of various records  is dedicated to Josef’s grandson Joseph “Butch” W. Hackenberg and his wife Luella Souther Hackenberg, shown below, who own and live on Doraville homestead, now known as Hackenberg Tree Farm. (Picture taken 2005 in South Dakota.)

. . . and in memory of Joe Jr. and Wilma Hackenberg.

“We clasp the hands of those that go before us,
And the hands of those who come after us."

Wendell Berry