In July of 1928, Joe was in Kansas City, Missouri. He mailed a postcard to his mother, Mrs. George J. Bankert, in Westminster, Maryland. Westminster is the county seat of Carroll County in north-central Maryland (about 37 miles northwest of Baltimore.). The postcard bears a photograph of a monumental sculpture called, “The Pioneer Mother”. The … Continue reading A Monument to the Pioneer Mother – Kansas City, Missouri  (1928)