People: Gottlob & Cathern Bohn, William & Phyllis Bohn and children, Richard Hamm, John Nelson (carpenter from Niwot) -- Places: Settlement of Ryssby, Longmont -- Subjects: Ryssby Church, repair of steeple, Midsummer services, Christmas services, weddings, Ryssby cemetery, burials, sale of plots, Farm Bureau (state, local and national), Boulder County Biotech Advisory Board, Swede Ditch, filling rights for Bohn Lake, municipal water rights, farming the rocky soil around Ryssby, construction of Bohn house which used to be a dance hall, moving to Ryssby in 1941, packing all belongings and livestock in a boxcar, learning to irrigate, boyhood in 1940s, trapping muskrats, earning spending money as a boy, working at a restaurant in Longmont, Future Farmers of America, box socials, 4-H, fun, job at Longmont sugar beet factory, joining the Navy, Altona Grange. Includes 2 videographed photographs of: Ryssby Church without steeple (dated between 1930 and 1969), the drawing of the new steeple; also additional videos of the present day Ryssby Church, and the Bohn home and farmyard.
