The Sunday Car

 

Oil on Canvas
12″ x 12″
$550
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Gresens Ranch
Thomas Grist homesteaded the ranch and built the log house still standing on the property.  It was then bought by Neal Gresen’s parents, and when Neal married Irene, they lived in the corn crib until his folks sold the property to them.  Here Marge Holmlund, our guide, played as a child, and the love of this property and her aunt was beautifully evident as we toured the ranch. The Gresens raised their four children in the tiny house they built in the twenties.  To accommodate four little bodies in one 6 x 6 bedroom they fashioned a pair of bunk beds.  In the dump on the little hill, a distance from the house, was their car, sporting a 1955 plate, though it was a 1948 or earlier vintage Ford.  The car, rusted nearly pink, looked imperial among decaying farm equipment and unknown junk.