On July 7, 2007, long-time Whitney area resident Bob Lemmon (left) spent an hour or so visiting with Bob Galey (right) and Larry Miller about days gone by. Bob's ancestors came to the United States from Ireland. They eventually settled in northwest Nebraska. His mother and father were married shortly after the turn of the century, and his mother (Anna Neece Lemmon) completed her education at the old Normal School in Chadron before becoming a teacher and then raising her family. Bob attended the Whitney School and graduated in 1931. Within three weeks, he went Pine Ridge in South Dakota, where his father had leased 90 sections of land for 5 cents an acre. They started with 800 head of cattle and returned six years later with 2,800 head.

Bob Lemmon remembers Whitney, Nebraska, when it was a "hopping" place. A few of his memories are shared here.

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On July 7, 2007, long-time Whitney area resident Bob Lemmon (left) spent an hour or so visiting with Bob Galey (right) and Larry Miller about days gone by.

Bob's ancestors came to the United States from Ireland. They eventually settled in northwest Nebraska. His mother and father were married shortly after the turn of the century, and his mother (Anna Neece Lemmon) completed her education at the old Normal School in Chadron before becoming a teacher and then raising her family.

Bob attended the Whitney School and graduated in 1931. Within three weeks, he went Pine Ridge in South Dakota, where his father had leased 90 sections of land for 5 cents an acre. They started with 800 head of cattle and returned six years later with 2,800 head.