Off work visiting Osceola on Monday, January 20, 1958, Dale wrote, “Up early, Stan and I drove to Muscatine in the morning. I visited the alcohol plant, and he visited school. We drove from Muscatine back to Minneapolis in the afternoon and evening. The Chevy is sure dirty. Wrote Mother a card.” Above: the alcohol plant at a bend of the Mississippi, with a barge in the foreground.