What is the significance of having never spoken to the person knocking at the window?

i think it was california.

which detail from "home place retold" supports the central idea that despite physical changes, watonwan is a special place for generations of people?

great great-grandchildren retell the story of early days. .

young families worked hard to build a life.

those matches might seem surprising in modern times.

in 1881, more than 50 such families fled religious persecution. .