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Weekly Chats On The Farm Des Moines River Trip
A Des Moines area farm visit narrates a Thursday outing with Neal Goemaat Engle Visser and Dan Morgan. The group crosses the Des Moines River by wade through shallow water, tours the Engle Visser home and a 75 year old fisherman’s tent, then visits Jacob Goemaat for Dutch coffee hour before detailing the Kamerick coal mine and new strip mining efforts nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neal Goemaat
Dan Morgan
Jake Visser
Engle Visser
Visser
Ethel Cox
Ruth
James
David
Joe
Violet
Donald
Dakota
Mr. Morgan
Morgan
Harvey
Fee
Des Moines
Jacob Goemart
Goemaat
Leydens
Holland
Lillian Esther
Bastian
Ford
T. B
Houghton
Pella
Chronicle
Paul Vander Zyl
Vander Zyl Bros
Sampson
Ryke
State Inspector of Mines
City Light