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Image:martha 10.jpg|<center>How real men move snow. This would be in front of the farmhouse in 1940. I believe that the future airfield would be off to the left. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
Image:martha 10.jpg|<center>How real men move snow. This would be in front of the farmhouse in 1940. I believe that the future airfield would be off to the left. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
Image:martha 11.jpg|<center>Ralph Gardiner pumping water in front of the farmhouse around 1940. Phpto courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
Image:martha 11.jpg|<center>Ralph Gardiner pumping water in front of the farmhouse around 1940. Phpto courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 12.jpg|<center>Ralph Gardiner splitting firewood on the Westerlo farm. The road running diagonally behind him would be known as Airport Road today. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 13.jpg|<center>Martha and Belva Gardiner around 1929. I suspect that this is Thacher park but am not sure. I think that is their brother, Ralph, behind them with the telescope. Perhaps a church outing? Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 14.jpg|<center>The Gardner kids on the farm in Westerlo, about 1930. Belva, Russell, Ralph, Martha, and Lois. Ralph stayed on the farm his entire life. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
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Image:martha 15.jpg|<center>Gardiner family in White Earth ND. Martha (about one year old) is sitting in the lap of her older sister Belva, back in 1925. The family dog Nancy is looking on. About a year later they would be on their way East - a Journey which terminated in Westerlo. Photo courtesy of Don Slingerland</center>
 
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Revision as of 18:11, 10 January 2016

Moak/Gardiner house. This is one of the Moak houses on Airport road outside of Westerlo. The date is around 1902 – looks like they had a fairly respectable snowfall that winter! Back then, the Moak families had several houses around what is now the airport. Standing on the porch is Adelbert with his mom Maggie Haines Moak. Adelbert’s father, Manley, owned the place at the time. Manley Moak and family moved into town some years later and the house was used for storage. This changed in 1926 when the Russell Gardiner family, from White Earth North Dakota, purchased the place and moved in. To date, the Gardiner family has lived here for nearly 90 years. Martha Gardiner Slingerland, spent most of her childhood here.