While I don't always update my web pages every day which creates curiosity with some people that they e-mail me to find out if anything is wrong...
Nothing wrong lately - JUST busy as usual in preserving Manning history and capturing events going on in Manning.

Dennis Barten has been bringing me quite a few of his mother's scrapbooks to scan. The Porsch family is another family that has basically disappeared from the Manning area and will be lost to time if I can't find more pix & information to document they existed and what they did for the community - they were a big part of our community - like so many families - especially when it comes to military service.
Here are a few examples...what I like so much and always prefer are that Dennis mostly has original photos for me to scan.
I have some scans of these people below from other collections but some of them were copies which don't make the best digital images for web pages and archival purposes.


Arnold & Catherina (Schmidt) Porsch


Erna (Porsch) & Ray Schultz


Herman & Elsie (Avey) Porsch


Adolph, Otto, Marie (Lehwald) Porsch

Connie, one of my Manning helpers, found a web site that had quite a few documents about Otto. I'm not sure if they were official government documents that someone accessed and scanned or if a family member had them, scanned them and gave them to that web site to feature. Either way, they were obviously not properly cared for where moisture and other aspects caused a lot of deterioration. Fortunately most of the damage is around the edges, but further shows how important it is to digitally scan and archive old documents and pix before they are damaged and continue to deteriorate regardless of how they are stored and cared for.
Then the other problem is whoever scanned the documents didn't take the time to make sure the documents were placed "square to the world" on the scanner - crooked scanned pix & documents are really annoying to look at and especially when editing/cropping them...
Here are 4 of the scans I grabbed from that website.

Departure & arrival dates


Telegram - wounded in action


Description of wounds


Discarge

Lynn Porsch is in this picture - hopefully I'll get some help with IDs...these are the students I've identified so far.
1956 Bible class at Zion Lutheran along Second Street.
Back: Teacher
Third: ??, ??, Kay Petersen, Peggy Puck, ??, ??
Second: ??, Linda Barten, ??, Gloria Nissen
Front: ??, ??, Bruce Rutz, ??

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