A Lonely Bell on a Country Road

On the east edge of Pawnee County, a bell mounted on a sturdy iron framework sits on the sweeping curve of a rock road. It looks like a church bell. It is. It once hung in the tower of the St. John’s Reformed Church, also known as the Dry Branch Church, the church of the Swiss immigrant families who settled along both sides of the Pawnee-Richardson County Line. It was also known as the Hunzek...

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