From my Dad in today's mail ..."The First Skipper, who like all dogs loved to chase most anything thrown, would dash excitedly into Beaver Dam Creek at Rockwell in pursuit of a thrown stone. Not, of course, able to see it, she would stick her head into the water, find any stone on the stony bottom, and dutifully and proudly bring it to the miscreant who thusly teased the wonderful little companion of countless up-and-down-the-crick miles along the Skunk and Squaw Creek at Ames, and the Beaver Dam and the West Fork of the Iowa River, the latter four miles south of Rockwell."
Picture taken in 1936, in the back, Martha Kellogg (Frolander), Oliver William (Bill) Kellogg, in the front Marvin (Marv) D Kellogg and baby Edward (Ed) Kellogg (that "baby" celebrated his 70th birthday last month!)
Serendipity strikes: My Dad reports that the 'black blob' at Marv's feet (which I hadn't seen) is actually the black dog named ... yes ... Skipper! Skipper was a rat terrier, all black except for her white chest and feet.
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