60 Nebraskaland • June 2019
PORTRAITS FROM THE PAST
Pictured is me with mink taken from the 1957-58 trapping
season while I was in high school at Tekamah High. I ran a trapline
at night after school basketball practices. A pair of farmers, Ernest
Rojem and Poode Williamson, were kind enough to let me have the
run of their farm ponds and marshes at that time.
I am now 77, but those memories in the outdoors were special as
I reflect on them.
– Fred Lambley, Morse Bluffs
Taken in 1948 at Lake McConaughy: from left, my dad, Henry
Adkinson; Floyd Nickolson; Winnie Adkinson; Francis Adkinson
and my mother, Bula Adkinson. Taking the photo was Vada
Nickolson.
Henry and Francis were brothers who married Bula and Winnie,
who were sisters. Floyd and Vada were married. They all lived in
Dundy County and had many great fishing trips and stories to tell.
– Beatrice Hatch, Ogallala
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