Author Archives: gusmanning

Around 1953, the year I was 7 years old, LE Krause came to visit us and stayed with the whole summer with our family. We soon learned he was a really sincere and hard-working young guy, the kind your parents would always talk about, saying “Son, why can’t you be more like LE?” In theseContinue reading “Taking Over a Church Choir”

In 1910, LE’s Grandfather, Bob Manning migrated from Gypsum, Kansas to the small, lakeside town of Sandpoint, Idaho and purchased a homestead. LE’s mother, Virginia (Birdie) and my father, Eugene, were born Sandpoint, before Bob returned to Gypsum where his father C.B. Manning operated a hardware business. Bob Manning acquired a hardware business and livedContinue reading “Creating a Park in Idaho”